Kepler's conjecture [electronic resource] : how some of the greatest minds in history helped solve one of the oldest math problems in the world / George Szpiro.

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Szpiro, George, 1950-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2003.Description: 1 online resourceISBN:

9780471086017
9780471480624 (electronic bk.)

Subject(s):

Mathematics -- Popular works

LOC classification:

QA93 .S97 2003

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Electronic Resources

Contents:

Cannonballs and tomatoes -- The puzzle of the dozen spheres -- Fire hydrants and soccer players -- Thue's two attempts and Fejes-Tóth's achievement -- Twelve's company, thirteen's a crowd -- Nets and knots -- Twisted boxes -- No dancing at this congress -- The race for the upper bound -- Right angles for round spaces -- Wobbly balls and hybrid stars -- Simplex, Cplex, and symbolic mathematics -- But is it really a proof? -- Beehives again ... This is not an epilogue.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-286) and index.

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Kepler's conjecture [electronic resource] : how some of the greatest minds in history helped solve one of the oldest math problems in the world / George Szpiro.

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