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Poincare's Prize: The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of Math's Greatest Puzzles
The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of Math's Greatest Puzzles
George G. Szpiro
June 21, 2007 · Hardcover · Dutton Adult · 320 pp
First edition · ISBN 9780525950240 · English · US · Dewey 510.76 · LC QA43 .S985 2007
Hardcover
Traces the hundred-year effort to solve the Poincaré Conjecture and its successful solution by Grigory Perelman, an impoverished Russian recluse who refused all prizes and academic appointments while solving an array of mathematical conundrums.







