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The Millennium problems : the seven greatest unsolved mathematical puzzles of our time / Keith Devlin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : BasicBooks, 2002.Description: x, 237 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780465017294 (hbk.) :
  • 9780465017300
  • 0465017290
  • 0465017304 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 510 DEV
Partial contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 510 DEV (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 205729

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.

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