George G. Szpiro

50 pasatiempos y curiosidaes Fecha de publicación: 2012 Conocido ya en España por su libro Â?La vida secreta de los númerosÂ?, George Szpiro nos regala en Â?Festival matemático: Cincuenta pasatiempos y curiosidadesÂ? una miscelánea que hará las delicias de los numerosos aficionados al mundo de los números. A lo largo de su...

This engaging math history relates the 400-year story of Kepler's Conjecture, which, after Fermat's celebrated Last Theorem, was the greatest mathematical problem in the world. Suggested in 1611 and solved in 1998, Kepler's Conjecture has stymied some of the great mathematical minds in history.

Mathematics holds a special allure for many people. This work looks at interesting and unknown historical tidbits of mathematics. It introduces the profiles, some of the significant unsolved conjectures, and describes problems and puzzles that have already been solved. It shows how mathematics really does affect various aspects of life.