The Millennium problems : the seven greatest unsolved mathematical puzzles of our time / Keith Devlin.
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- 9780465017294 (hbk.) :
- 9780465017300
- 0465017290
- 0465017304 (pbk.)
- 510 DEV
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 230) and index.
The Riemann hypothesis -- Yang-Mills theory and the mass gap hypothesis -- The P vs. NP problem -- The Navier-Stokes equations -- The poincarea^ conjecture -- The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture -- The Hodge conjecture.
In 2000, the Clay Foundation of Cambridge, Massachusetts, announced a historic competition: whoever could solve any of seven extraordinarily difficult mathematical problems would receive $1 million. This text explains the problems, how they came about and what they mean for maths and science.