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The mathematical century : (Record no. 327)

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001 - CONTROL NUMBER
control field	ASIN0691128057
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field	20190522111954.0
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
fixed length control field	110913s2006 xxu eng d
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number	0691128057 (paperback)
Terms of availability	$21.95
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number	9780691128054 (paperback)
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number	510.904
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name	Odifreddi, Piergiorgio.
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title	The mathematical century :
Remainder of title	the 30 greatest problems of the last 100 years /
Statement of responsibility, etc.	Piergiorgio Odifreddi, Arturo Sangalli, Freeman Dyson.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc.	[S.l.] :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc.	Princeton University Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc.	2006.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent	224 p. ;
Dimensions	22 cm.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
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 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.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name	Sangalli, Arturo.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name	Dyson, Freeman.
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		Dewey Decimal Classification				Air University Central Library Islamabad	Air University Central Library Islamabad		09/13/2011	1	510.9 ODI	P6087	02/08/2023	01/05/2023	09/13/2011	Book

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The mathematical century : (Record no. 327)