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Mathematics : The New Golden Age

by Devlin, Keith

ISBN13: 9780231116381
ISBN10: 0231116381
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 1999-10-01
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

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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.

Preface

vii

Acknowledgments

Prime Numbers, Factoring, and Secret Codes

(36)

Sets, Infinity, and the Undecidable

(24)

Number Systems and the Class Number Problem

(24)

Beauty from Chaos

(26)

Simple Groups

111

(32)

Hilbert's Tenth Problem

143

(20)

The Four-Color Problem

163

(30)

Hard Problems About Complex Numbers

193

(30)

Knots, Topology, and the Universe

223

(40)

Fermat's Last Theorem

263

(28)

The Efficiency of Algorithms

291

(20)

Index

311

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