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9780140227284

Mathematics The New Golden Age

by Devlin, Keith
  • ISBN13:

    9780140227284

  • ISBN10:

    0140227288

  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Penguin Books
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Summary

A modern classic by an accomplished mathematician and best-selling author has been updated to encompass and explain the recent headline-making advances in the field in non-technical terms.

Table of Contents

Prime Numbers, Factoring, and Secret Codes
Sets, Infinity, and the Undecidable
Number Systems and the Class Number Problem
Beauty from Chaos
Simple Groups
Hilbert's Tenth Problem
The Four-Color Problem
Hard Problems About Complex Numbers
Knots, Topology, and the Universe
Fermat's Last Theorem
The Efficiency of Algorithms
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