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People, Problems, and Proofs

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 The Claimant, the Readers, and the Crowd
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    Chapter 2 Kenneth Iverson: Notation and Thinking
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    Chapter 3 Edmund Hillary: Proofs and Mountain Climbing
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    Chapter 4 Leonardo da Vinci: Proofs as Art
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    Chapter 5 Michael Atiyah: The Role of Proof
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    Chapter 6 Subhash Khot: Unique Games Conjecture
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    Chapter 7 Arno van den Essen: An Amazing Conjecture
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    Chapter 8 Richard Hamilton: Group Efforts
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    Chapter 9 Grigori Perelman: A New Clay Problem
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    Chapter 10 Eric Allender: Solvable Groups
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    Chapter 11 Enrico Bombieri: On Intuition
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    Chapter 12 Fred Hennie: Lower Bounds
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    Chapter 13 Volker Strassen: Amazing Results
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    Chapter 14 Adam Smith: Dumb Channels
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    Chapter 15 Georg Cantor: Diagonal Method
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    Chapter 16 Raymond Smullyan: The Reals Are Uncountable
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    Chapter 17 William Tutte: Flow Problems
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    Chapter 18 Basil Rathbone: Writing a Major Result
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    Chapter 19 Elwyn Berlekamp: Dots and Boxes
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    Chapter 20 David Johnson: Galactic Algorithms
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    Chapter 21 Warren Hirsch: Guessing the Truth
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    Chapter 22 Shimon Even: A Promise Problem
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    Chapter 23 Matei David: Improving Noam Nisan’s Generator
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    Chapter 24 Ryan Williams: A New Lower Bound
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    Chapter 25 Joel Seiferas: More on the New Lower Bound
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    Chapter 26 Victor Klee: Big Results
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    Chapter 27 George Dantzig: Equations, Equations, and Equations
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    Chapter 28 Srinivasa Ramanujan: The Role of Amateurs
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    Chapter 29 John Rhodes: Approaches to Problems
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    Chapter 30 John Nash: Connections
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    Chapter 31 Chee Yap: Computing Digits of π
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    Chapter 32 Henri Lebesgue: Projections Are Tricky
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    Chapter 33 Nina Balcan: A New Model of Complexity
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    Chapter 34 Sam Buss: Bounded Logic
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    Chapter 35 Anton Klyachko: Car Crashes
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    Chapter 36 Bernard Chazelle: Natural Algorithms
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    Chapter 37 Thomas Jech: The Axiom of Choice
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    Chapter 38 Alfonso Bedoya: Definitions, Definitions, and Definitions
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    Chapter 39 Hartley Rogers: Complexity Classes
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    Chapter 40 Ron Fagin: Second-Order Logic
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    Chapter 41 Daniel Lokshtanov: Knapsack Problem
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    Chapter 42 Albert Einstein: Beyond Polynomial Equations
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    Chapter 43 Denis Thérien: Solvable Groups
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    Chapter 44 Andreas Björklund: Hamiltonian Cycles
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    Chapter 45 David Hilbert: The Nullstellensatz
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    Chapter 46 John Hopcroft: Thinking out of the Box
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    Chapter 47 Dick Karp: The Polynomial Hierarchy
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    Chapter 48 Nick Howgrave-Graham and Antoine Joux: Attacking the Knapsack Problem
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    Chapter 49 Hedy Lamarr: The Role of Amateurs
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    Chapter 50 Nicolas Courtois: The Linearization Method
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    Chapter 51 Neal Koblitz: Attacks on Cryptosystems
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    Chapter 52 Richard Feynman: Miracle Numbers
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    Chapter 53 Patrick Fischer: Programming Turing Machines
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    Chapter 54 Roger Apéry: Explaining Proofs
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    Chapter 55 Ron Rivest: Mathematical Gifts
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    Chapter 56 Frank Ryan: The Quarterback Teaches
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    Chapter 57 Leonard Schulman: Associativity
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    Chapter 58 Paul Seymour: Graph Minors
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    Chapter 59 Alfred Tarski: Lower Bounds on Theories
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    Chapter 60 Ken Thompson: Playing Chess
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    Chapter 61 Virginia Vassilevska: Fixing Tournaments
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    Chapter 62 Arkadev Chattopadhyay: Computing Modulo Composites
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    Chapter 63 Charles Bennett: Quantum Protocols
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Title
People, Problems, and Proofs
Published by
Springer Berlin Heidelberg, January 2013
DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-41422-0
ISBNs
978-3-64-241421-3, 978-3-64-241422-0
Authors

Richard J. Lipton, Kenneth W. Regan, Lipton, Richard J., Regan, Kenneth W.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 8 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 2 25%
Student > Master 2 25%
Student > Postgraduate 1 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 13%
Unknown 2 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 3 38%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 13%
Mathematics 1 13%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 13%
Engineering 1 13%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 1 13%