Kepler's Conjecture
How Some of the Greatest Minds in History Helped Solve One of the Oldest Math Problems in the World
(Sprache: Englisch)
The fascinating story of a problem that perplexed mathematicians for nearly 400 years
In 1611, Johannes Kepler proposed that the best way to pack spheres as densely as possible was to pile them up in the same way that grocers stack oranges or tomatoes....
In 1611, Johannes Kepler proposed that the best way to pack spheres as densely as possible was to pile them up in the same way that grocers stack oranges or tomatoes....
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The fascinating story of a problem that perplexed mathematicians for nearly 400 yearsIn 1611, Johannes Kepler proposed that the best way to pack spheres as densely as possible was to pile them up in the same way that grocers stack oranges or tomatoes. This proposition, known as Kepler's Conjecture, seemed obvious to everyone except mathematicians, who seldom take anyone's word for anything. In the tradition of Fermat's Enigma, George Szpiro shows how the problem engaged and stymied many men of genius over the centuries--Sir Walter Raleigh, astronomer Tycho Brahe, Sir Isaac Newton, mathematicians C. F. Gauss and David Hilbert, and R. Buckminster Fuller, to name a few--until Thomas Hales of the University of Michigan submitted what seems to be a definitive proof in 1998.
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From the contents:Introduction.
Cannonballs and Tomatoes.
The Puzzle of the Dozen Spheres.
Parasols, Water Hydrants, and Soccer Players.
Thue's Two Attempts and Fejes-Tóth's Achievement.
Twelve's Company, Thirteen's a Crowd.
Nets and Knots.
Twisted Boxes.
No Dancing at this Congress.
The Race for the Upper Bound.
Right Angles for round Spaces.
Wobbly Balls and Hybrid Stars.
Simplex, Cplex, and Symbolic Mathematics.
Bit Is It Really a Proof?
Beehives Again ...
This Is Not An Epilogue.
Mathematical Appendices.
Bibliography.
Index.
Autoren-Porträt von George G. Szpiro
George G. Szpiro, geboren 1950, studierte Mathematik in Zürich und promovierte, später wandte er sich dem Journalismus zu. Seit 1987 berichtet er von Jerusalem aus für die Neue Zürcher Zeitung über Israel sowie über Mathematik und andere wissenschaftliche Themen. Seine monatlich in der NZZ am Sonntag erscheinende Kolumne »George Szpiros kleines Einmaleins« wurde von der Schweizerischen Akademie der Naturwissenschaften mit dem Prix Média 2003 ausgezeichnet.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: George G. Szpiro
- 2003, VIII, 296 Seiten, mit Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen, Maße: 23,5 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Wiley & Sons
- ISBN-10: 0471086010
- ISBN-13: 9780471086017
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Englisch
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