The Hilbert Challenge

by Jeremy J. Gray

Book Overview

Few problems in mathematics have had the status of those posed by David Hilbert in 1900. Mathematicians have made their reputations by solving some of them like Fermat's last theorem, but several remain unsolved including the Riemann Hypotheses, which has eluded all the great minds of this century. A hundred years later, this book takes a fresh look at the problems, the man who set them, and the reasons for their lasting impact on the mathematics...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198506511
• ISBN13: 9780198506515
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"