- Mathematics, Number theory, History, Mathematisches Problem
"Overview of the most formidable problems mathematicians have vanquished, and those that vex them still"--Dust jacket flap.
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Classical in form, cool, spare and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Ian Stewart
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 346
- Publisher
- TBS/GBS/Transworld, Basic Books, Rowohlt Taschenbuch
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- German, Portuguese, English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781847653512
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Ian Nicholas Stewart FRS CMath FIMA is a British mathematician and a popular-science and science-fiction writer. He is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick, England. *--Wikipedia*
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