Mathematical mountaintops
Subtitle: the five most famous problems of all time
By: John L. Casti.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
Subjects: Mathematics -- Popular works
Genres: Popular works.
Description: "Casti brilliantly recreates the solutions to the five greatest mathematcal problmes of all time: The four-color map problem, Fermat's last theorem, the Continuum hypothesis, Kepler's conjecture, and Hilbert's tenth problem."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-177) and index.
Table of contents: title: The art of the problem; title: Hilbert's tenth problem; title: The four-color problem; title: The continuum hypothesis; title: The Kepler conjecture; title: Fermat's last theorem; title: The magnificent seven.