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  The Millennium Problems: The Seven Greatest Unsolved Mathematical Puzzles of Our Time (Paperback) By (author) Keith J. Devlin

  

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  Short Description for The Millennium ProblemsIn 2000, the Clay Foundation of Cambridge, Massachusetts, announced a historic competition: whoever could solve any of seven extraordinarily difficult mathematical problems would receive $1 million. This text explains the problems, how they came about and what they mean for maths and science.
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  • Publisher: BASIC BOOKS
  • Published: 16 October 2003
  • Format: Paperback 256 pages
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  • Categories: Mathematics | Mathematical Foundations | History Of Mathematics | Popular Science
  • ISBN 13: 9780465017300 ISBN 10: 0465017304
  • Sales rank: 167,541

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• The definitive account of the Everests of mathematics--the seven unsolved problems that define the state of the art in contemporary math. In 2000, the Clay Foundation announced a historic competition: whoever could solve any of seven extraordinarily difficult mathematical problems, and have the solution acknowledged as correct by the experts, would receive USD1 million in prize money. There was some precedent for doing this: In 1900 the mathematician David Hilbert proposed twenty-three problems that set much of the agenda for mathematics in the twentieth century. The Millennium Problems--chosen by a committee of the leading mathematicians in the world--are likely to acquire similar stature, and their solution (or lack of it) is likely to play a strong role in determining the course of mathematics in the twenty-first century. Keith Devlin, renowned expositor of mathematics and one of the authors of the Clay Institute's official description of the problems, here provides the definitive account for the mathematically interested reader.