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9780231116381

Mathematics : The New Golden Age

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  • 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.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Acknowledgments xi
Prime Numbers, Factoring, and Secret Codes
1(36)
Sets, Infinity, and the Undecidable
37(24)
Number Systems and the Class Number Problem
61(24)
Beauty from Chaos
85(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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