The mathematical century : the 30 greatest problems of the last 100 years / Piergiorgio Odifreddi ;...
The mathematical century : the 30 greatest problems of the last 100 years / Piergiorgio Odifreddi ;...
The mathematical century : the 30 greatest problems of the last 100 years / Piergiorgio Odifreddi ; translated by Arturo Sangalli with a foreword by Freeman Dyson.
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2004.
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xvi, 204 p. ; 23 cm.
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2004.
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c2004.
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"The twentieth century was a time of unprecedented development in mathematics, as well as in all sciences: more theorems were proved and results found in a hundred years than in all of previous history. In The Mathematical Century, Piergiorgio Odifreddi distills this unwieldy mass of knowledge into a fascinating and authoritative overview of the su...
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The mathematical century : the 30 greatest problems of the last 100 years / Piergiorgio Odifreddi ; translated by Arturo Sangalli with a foreword by Freeman Dyson.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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069109294X :
069109294X (acid-free paper)
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510.904
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991017740859702626
