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- catalog abstract ""Mathematics: The New Golden Age offers a glimpse of the extraordinary vistas and bizarre universes opened up by contemporary mathematicians: Hilbert's tenth problem and the four-color theorem, Gaussian integers, chaotic dynamics and the Mandelbrot set, infinite numbers, and strange number systems. Why a "new golden age"? According to Keith Devlin, we are currently witnessing an astronomical amount of mathematical research. Charting the most significant developments that have taken place in mathematics since 1960, Devlin expertly describes these advances for the interested layperson and adroitly summarizes their significance as he leads the reader into the heart of the most interesting mathematical perplexities - from the biggest known prime number to the Shimura-Taniyama conjecture for Fermat's Last Theorem."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11494782.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""Mathematics: The New Golden Age offers a glimpse of the extraordinary vistas and bizarre universes opened up by contemporary mathematicians: Hilbert's tenth problem and the four-color theorem, Gaussian integers, chaotic dynamics and the Mandelbrot set, infinite numbers, and strange number systems. Why a "new golden age"? According to Keith Devlin, we are currently witnessing an astronomical amount of mathematical research. Charting the most significant developments that have taken place in mathematics since 1960, Devlin expertly describes these advances for the interested layperson and adroitly summarizes their significance as he leads the reader into the heart of the most interesting mathematical perplexities - from the biggest known prime number to the Shimura-Taniyama conjecture for Fermat's Last Theorem."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Prime numbers, factoring, and secret codes -- Sets, infinity, and the undecidable -- Number systems and the class number problem -- Beauty from chaos -- Simple groups -- Hilbert's tenth problem -- Four-color problem -- Hard problems about complex numbers -- Knots, topology, and the universe -- Fermat's last theorem -- Efficiency of algorithms.".
- catalog extent "xi, 320 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0231116381 (cloth)".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Columbia University Press,".
- catalog subject "510 21".
- catalog subject "Mathematics History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Mathematics Popular works.".
- catalog subject "QA93 .D46 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prime numbers, factoring, and secret codes -- Sets, infinity, and the undecidable -- Number systems and the class number problem -- Beauty from chaos -- Simple groups -- Hilbert's tenth problem -- Four-color problem -- Hard problems about complex numbers -- Knots, topology, and the universe -- Fermat's last theorem -- Efficiency of algorithms.".
- catalog title "Mathematics : the new golden age / Keith Devlin.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "Popular works. fast".
- catalog type "text".