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Honors Class : Hilbert's Problems and Their Solvers (New Edition).
This eminently readable book focuses on the people of mathematics and draws the reader into their fascinating world. In a monumental address, given to the International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris in 1900, David Hilbert, perhaps the most respected mathematician of his time, developed a bluep...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Natick :
CRC Press,
2001.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Advice: How to Read This Book""; ""The Origin of the Coordinates""; ""Set Theory, Anyone?""; ""I Am Lying (Mathematics Is Consistent)""; ""The Perfect Spy: How Many Real Numbers Are There?""; ""Can�t We Do This with a Computer?""; ""In the Original""; ""Distance""; ""Something for Nothing""; ""On Again, Off Again: Physics and Math""; ""First, State the Tune""; ""Transcending Local Conditions""; ""The Inordinate Allure of the Prime Numbers""; ""Castles of Air""; ""What Is Algebra?""; ""Schubert�s Variety Show""
- ""Graph That Curve""""How Many Kinds of Crystals Are There, and Does the Grocer Know How to Stack Oranges?""; ""Analysis Takes at Least Seven Years""; ""How Famous Can a Function Theorist Be?""; ""Schools Amid Turbulence""; ""Past Chernaya Rechka, to 61 Savushkina Street""; ""Work on It""; ""Census""; ""Mathematical Problems""; ""Notes""; ""Selected Bibliography""; ""Index""