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Poincare's Prize: The Hundred-year Quest to Solve One of Math's Greatest Puzzles
Reviews (10)
21 December 2009Poincare's Prize
This is a very well written book.
15 October 2008A Moving and Engaging Story
This semester, I'm taking a course on topology, just for fun.
16 February 2008Chronicle of a Conjecture
In 1904, Henri Poincare published a paper in which he asked: \" Is it possible that the fundamental group of a manifold be trivial and yet the manifold not be homeomorphic to a sphere ?
21 December 2007lively history; many math errors; where are the pictures?
This book gives a nice account of the history of the various attempts to solve the Poincare conjecture, culminating with its recent proof by Perelman.
31 August 2007Clear and lucid but does not embrace all aspects of the subject
George Szpiro has written a marvellous account of Poincaré conjecture .
10 August 2007A Gold Mind for the Mathematician
I read this book while enjoying my coffee and cinnamon roll at Borders.
1 August 2007A story began by one of the best mathematicians of the 20th century and finished by a genius of the 21st
A delightful story of one of the major problems in mathematics and the numerous people, many Field medalists, that have intervened to solve it.
30 June 2007An interesting, troubling, but helpful story
Written for the \"general\" audience and therefore essentially free of mathematical formalism, this book offers the reader a history of the work devoted to the resolution of the Poincare conjecture and the language of geometric topology that forms its context.
29 June 2007Brilliant analogies explain technical mathematics
I'm impressed and delighted at the way that Szpiro has been able to use analogy to provide appealing and memorable mental pictures of some of the deep and technical mathematical ideas.
21 June 2007Couldn't lay it down
This is one of the best books about mathematics that I have ever read.