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Kepler's Conjecture: How Some of the Greatest Minds in History Helped Solve One of the Oldest Math Problems in the World
by Szpiro, George G
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- ISBN 13
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Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2003. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The fascinating story of a problem that perplexed mathematicians for nearly 400 years In 1611, Johannes Kepler proposed that the best way to pack spheres as densely as possible was to pile them up in the same way that grocers stack oranges or tomatoes. This proposition, known as Kepler's Conjecture, seemed obvious to everyone except mathematicians, who seldom take anyone's word for anything. In the tradition of Fermat's Enigma, George Szpiro shows how the problem engaged and stymied many men of genius over the centuries--Sir Walter Raleigh, astronomer Tycho Brahe, Sir Isaac Newton, mathematicians C. F. Gauss and David Hilbert, and R. Buckminster Fuller, to name a few--until Thomas Hales of the University of Michigan submitted what seems to be a definitive proof in 1998.George G. Szpiro (Jerusalem, Israel) is a mathematician turned journalist. He is currently the Israel correspondent for the Swiss daily Neue Zurcher Zeitung..
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- Title
- Kepler's Conjecture: How Some of the Greatest Minds in History Helped Solve One of the Oldest Math Problems in the World
- Author
- Szpiro, George G
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
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- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0471086010
- ISBN 13
- 9780471086017
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- Wiley
- Place of Publication
- Hoboken, NJ
- Date Published
- 2003
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- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
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- Dozen Speres Hybrid Stars Cplex Mathematics
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