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The Great Mathematical Problems [note 1] is a 2013 book by Ian Stewart. It discusses fourteen [ 1 ] mathematical problems and is written for laypersons. [ 2 ] The book has received positive reviews.
Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture is a 1992 novel by Greek author Apostolos Doxiadis.It concerns a young man's interaction with his reclusive uncle, who sought to prove a famous unsolved mathematics problem, called Goldbach's Conjecture, that every even number greater than two is the sum of two primes.
Cube (1997) – Six people, including Leaven, a math student, awake in a deathtrap based on mathematical principles. Fermat's Room (2007) – Three mathematicians and one inventor are invited to a house under the premise of solving a great enigma and told to use pseudonyms based on famous historical mathematicians. At the house, they are ...
Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics (2003) is a historical book on mathematics by John Derbyshire, detailing the history of the Riemann hypothesis, named for Bernhard Riemann, and some of its applications. The book was awarded the Mathematical Association of America's inaugural Euler Book Prize in ...
Conjecture Field Comments Eponym(s) Cites 1/3–2/3 conjecture: order theory: n/a: 70 abc conjecture: number theory: ⇔Granville–Langevin conjecture, Vojta's conjecture in dimension 1 ⇒Erdős–Woods conjecture, Fermat–Catalan conjecture Formulated by David Masser and Joseph Oesterlé. [1] Proof claimed in 2012 by Shinichi Mochizuki: n/a ...
The book is the first mathematics book to become a Number One seller in the United Kingdom, [5] whilst Singh's documentary The Proof, on which the book was based, won a BAFTA in 1997. [6] In the United States, the book was released as Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem.
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This is a list of notable theorems.Lists of theorems and similar statements include: List of algebras; List of algorithms; List of axioms; List of conjectures