The Mathematical Century (Record no. 50375)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9788173715426
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 510.904 ODI
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Personal name Piergiorgio Odifreddi
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Personal name ;Freeman Dyson
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Title The Mathematical Century
Remainder of title : the 30 greatest problems of the last 100 years
Statement of responsibility, etc / Piergiorgio Odifreddi
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc Hyderabad
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : Universities Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc : 2011
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xvi, 204 pages
Other physical details : illustrations
Dimensions ; 22 cm
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Contents note The foundations. The 1920s : Sets --<br/>The 1940s : Structures --<br/>The 1960s : Categories --<br/>The 1980s : Functions --<br/>2. Pure mathematics. Mathematical analysis : Lebesgue measure (1902) --<br/>Algebra : classification of fields (1910) --<br/>Topology : Brouwer's fixed-point theorem (1910) --<br/>Number theory : Gelfand transcendental numbers (1929) --<br/>Logic : Gödel's incompleteness theorem (1931) --<br/>The calculus of variations : Douglas's minimal surfaces (1931) --<br/>Mathematical analysis : Schwartz's theory of distribution (1945) --<br/>Differential topology : Milnor's exotic structures (1956) --<br/>Model theory : Robinson's hyperreal numbers (1961) --<br/>Set theory : Cohen's independence theorem (1963) --<br/>Singularity theory : Thom's classification of catastrophes (1964) --<br/>Algebra : Gorenstein's classification of finite groups (1972) --<br/>Topology : Thurston's classification of 3-dimensional surfaces (1982) --<br/>Number theory : Wiles proof of Fermat's last theorem (1995) --<br/>Discrete geometry : Hales's solution of Kepler's problem (1998). 3. Applied mathematics. Crystallography : Bieberbach's symmetry groups (1910) --<br/>Tensor calculus : Einstein's general theory of relativity (1915) --<br/>Game theory : Von Neumann's minimax theorem (1928) --<br/>Functional analysis : Von Neumann's axiomatization of quantum mechanics (1932) --<br/>Probability theory : Kolmogorov's axiomatization (1933) --<br/>Optimization theory : Dantzig's simplex method (1947) --<br/>General equilibrium theory : the Arrow-Debreu existence theorem (1954) --<br/>The theory of formal languages : Chomsky's classification (1957) --<br/>Dynamical systems theory : the KAM theorem (1962) --<br/>Knot theory : Jones invariants (1984) --<br/>4. Mathematics and the computer. The theory of algorithms : Turing's characterization (1936) --<br/>Artificial intelligence : Shannon's analysis of the game of chess (1950)--<br/>Chaos theory : Lorenz's strange attractor (1963) --<br/>Computer-assisted proofs : the four-color theorem of Appel and Haken (1976) --<br/>Fractals : the Mandelbrot set (1980) --<br/>5. Open problems. Arithmetic : the perfect numbers problem (300 B.C.) --<br/>Complex analysis : the Riemann hypothesis (1859) --<br/>Algebraic topology : the Poincaré conjecture (1904) --<br/>Complexity theory : the P = NP problem (1972).
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Summary, etc The twentieth century was a time of unprecedented development in mathematics, as well as in all sciences: more theorems were proved and results found in a hundred years than in all of previous history. In The Mathematical Century, Piergiorgio Odifreddi distills this unwieldy mass of knowledge into a fascinating and authoritative overview of the subject. He concentrates on thirty highlights of pure and applied
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Mathematics
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Genre/form data or focus term Mathematics -- History --
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Genre/form data or focus term Mathématiques
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Personal name Piergiorgio Odifreddi
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Mathematics Departmental Library Mathematics Departmental Library 13/11/2018   510.904 ODI M006 13/11/2018 13/11/2018 Mathematics Departmental Library
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