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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This is a nice little book reviewing some of the significant challenges for mathematicians over the last century. It is accessible to those who like math, but it does not require a degree in it. It start off with setting up the major structural apparatus for mathematical thinking over 20 year periods. Sets in the 1920's, structures in the 1940's, categories in the 1960's, and functions in the 1980's. These relate to concerns prevalent during each 20 year period and the evolution to the next concept because of inadequacies of advancing understanding from the earlier configuration of thinking. Piergiorgio Odifreddi then goes through significant problems in pure mathematics, applied mathematics, computer and software development, and ending with open problems (perfect numbers, the Riemann hypothesis, the Poincaré conjecture, and complexity theory). I checked this book out of the library and is now on my wishlist. During the twentieth century, more theorems were proved and results found in a hundred years than in all of previous history. In this book, the author distills this unwieldy mass of knowledge into a fascinating and authoritatitve overview of the subject. He concentrates on thirty highlights of pure and applied mathematics. Each tells the story of an exciting problem, from its historical origins to its modern solution, in lively prose free of technical details. In presenting the thirty problems at the heart of the book he devotes equal attention to pure and applied mathematics, with applications ranging from physics and computer science to biology and economics. Special attention is dedicated to the famous '23 problems' outlined by David Hilbert in 1900 as a research program for the new century, and to the work of the winners of the Fields Medal, the equivalent of a Nobel prize in mathematics. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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 mathematics. Each tells the story of an exciting problem, from its historical origins to its modern solution, in lively prose free of technical details. Odifreddi opens by discussing the four main philosophical foundations of mathematics of the nineteenth century and ends by describing the four most important open mathematical problems of the twenty-first century. In presenting the thirty problems at the heart of the book he devotes equal attention to pure and applied mathematics, with applications ranging from physics and computer science to biology and economics. Special attention is dedicated to the famous "23 problems" outlined by David Hilbert in his address to the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1900 as a research program for the new century, and to the work of the winners of the Fields Medal, the equivalent of a Nobel prize in mathematics. This eminently readable book will be treasured not only by students and their teachers but also by all those who seek to make sense of the elusive macrocosm of twentieth-century mathematics. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I am only docking 1/2 star because the "References and Further Reading" section is not much to write home about. Because the book is short and can only touch on a number of topics, I'd think a reading list would be less ... vestigial.
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