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This eminently readable book focuses on the people of mathematics and draws the reader into their fascinating world. In a monumental address, given to the International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris in 1900, David Hilbert, perhaps the most respected mathematician of his time developed a blueprint for mathematical research in the new century. Jokingly called a natural introduction to thesis writing with examples, this collection of problems has indeed become a guiding inspiration to many mathematicians, and those who succeeded in solving or advancing their solutions form an Honors Class among research mathematicians of this century. In a remarkable labor of love and with the support of many of the major players in the field, Ben Yandell has written a fascinating account of the achievements of this Honors Class, covering mathematical substance and biographical aspects. ... Read more

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great mathematicians who contributed to solutions of Hibert's 23 unsolved problems
The Honors Class is the collection of mathematicians that individually or in collaboration solved or partially solved at least one of Hilbert's 23 problems. Yandell does a great of gathering up the historical information so that we have an up-to-date account of the progress on each problem and even how some problems evolved because of their vague or incorrect original proposal.
This is a popular math book and is accessible to the nonmathematician such as the fine books by Casti on mathematicians and mathematical developments. It is also similar to Singh's book on Fermat.

I think the historical research and accounting of the mathematics deserves 5 stars. I am a little unsure about how well the technical mathematics is conveyed to the layperson however. Admittedly, this is a very difficult task as much of the mathematics is very abstract, especially the early chapters on the foundational questions. The number theory, geometry and even some of the abstract algebra problems are easier to explain and Yandell does a fine job with them.

As a mathematician who studied algebra, analysis and even some symbolic logic as an undergraduate and graduate student, I still had a hard time feeling that I got the essence of the mathematics associated with some of these problems. Yandell's discussion is at times detailed but is necessarily sketchy on some of the mathematics. This works for me sometimes but not so well at other times. I think it would be much harder for a novice, but I guess it depends on the depth of understanding one is looking for.

I have always found the work of Cantor mysterious and so the ealry chapters that cover Godel and Cohen's amazing results are not the most enlightening for me. I had learned about the axiom of choice in my real analysis classes and was told something about the undecidability of it and its equivalence to the continuum hypothesis but have never really seen the connection or gotten much insight. The material on Paul Cohen is interesting to me because I attended Stanford in the 1970s when he was the buzz of the campus. A younger and less accomplished mathematician compared to many of his famous colleagues in Stanford's prestigious mathematics department, he still was revered because he solved one of Hilbert's problems. Still I am no closer to understanding symbolic logic and the method of deciding whether or not a proposition can be deduced from a set of axioms or can exist independently of the axiom system.

I got hooked on the book with the chapter on the tenth problem. This problem seemed more easily understandable and it was very interesting to see how the many players work together and separately to attack the problem including the very interesting Julia Robinson who was a key player in the middle of alll this.

The lives of these mathematicians, in some cases their suffering and insanity (similar to Nash) is very interesting and entertaining. There is too much here to handle in one reading.

I think this is a book I will go back to again and again. I am interested in reading more on Kolmogorov and want to try to understand some of the abstract algebra and number theory questions in more detail. There is a great deal of commonality in many of the stories. A large number of the members of the Honors Class were from Germany and fled during World War II. Many also traveled through or spent great portions of their career at Princeton University (some at the Institute for Advanced Study).

The book is thorough and gives an account of all the unsolved problems as well providing the insights of the mathematicians who have made attempts at them.

too much chat, not enough math
I was hoping for something more like The Millennium Problems: The Seven Greatest Unsolved Mathematical Puzzles of Our Time, an explanation of the problems and how they were solved, at a reasonably accessible level.This book appears to be just chat about the funny people who become math professors.Sort of interesting, but not what I wanted.

A wonderful book!
As a career scientist for over 50 years, I am versed in mathematics but not exactly a mathematician.I bought it to become familiar with Hilbert's problems.I quickly realized that Yandell's book was more about the attempters and solvers than about the problems.Yet the problems are described too, in considerable and certainly sufficient detail.

What was ultimately fascinating was the web Yandell weaves throughout the book.Those famous mathematicians and their colleagues, their personal lives, those famous problems, and all integrated so cohesively.

When I started reading I knew I was in for a long adventure.In fact, it took me over a year to read - of course, only an hour or so every few days.What extended it was the temptation to go back and reread, again and again.Finally, a week ago, I turned the last page.With great reluctance I put it on my bookshelf.I had a strong urge to start all over again from the very beginning, and I knew if I succumbed I was in for another year with it.

As I reflect, partly it was the subject - those difficult problems in such vastly different fields.Partly it was those mathematicians - many of them already heroes of mine.But mostly it was Yandell's skill in putting together this riveting accounting.His love of and fascination with mathematics, and his desire to share his romanticism with others, comes through so clearly.It is sad that he died, at the young age of 53, a scant two years after writing this book.Of a heart attack and multiple sclerosis.What a tragic loss.He was a gem.

Even if you are only mildly interested in mathematics, its history and personalities, you will absolutely love this accounting of it.

Feels like a dutiful summary
First, my background: I am not a mathematician, but an academic with fair knowledge of college math and even some advanced materials. I do greatly enjoy reading books about mathematics and mathematicians.

This book is obviously a work of great effort by the author. My difficulty probably came from the work's ambitious premise: offering mathematical and biographical history of Hilbert's problems. There are simply too many ideas and persons (some well known, others a bit obscure to lay reader like myself) to cover in one book.The author dutifully and honestly gives references to his sources. My impression is that the author collected as much material as he could about each problem and solvers, and tried to squeeze the information as compactly as possible into the pages.

The result: the narrative is very methodically told - explanation of the problem, some necessary ideas introduced, who the major solvers were, then a short biography of each solver, when and where they were born, who their parents were, where they went to school, who they married and so on; then another cycle begins. Halfway into the book, I began to get bored.

I can imagine mathematicians enjoying a quick review of and glimpses into their discipline and heroes, but lay readers much beware. I recommend lay readers to check out a few pagescarefully online or at your local library to see whether you like it. I certainly didn't hate it but did not like it as much as I expected.

A great work
Due to rapid development of mathemtics in the last century, now one cannot master all subfects of mathematics. This is also true for those historians. Most of the boods of " History of Mathematics " end in the beginning of 20th century. So we know very little about the conteporary mathematicians. This book can be described as a gap for it. After readiming this book, not only you have a knowledge about the life of the great mathemaitcians, you also get the period in World War II how Nazis forced those mathematicians out of Germany and the reason why U. S. A. is now the leading centre of mathematics. ... Read more

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In the summer of 1897, David Hilbert (1862-1943) gave an introductory course in Invariant Theory at the University of Gottingen.This book is an English translation of the handwritten notes taken from this course by Hilbert's student Sophus Marxen. At that time his research in the subject had been completed, and his famous finiteness theorem had been proved and published in two papers that changed the course of invariant theory dramatically and that laid the foundation for modern commutative algebra.Thus, these lectures take into account both the old approach of his predecessors and his new ideas.This bridge from nineteenth to twentieth century mathematics makes these lecture notes a special and fascinating account of invariant theory. Hilbert's course was given at a level accessible to graduate students in mathematics, requiring only a familiarity with linear algebra and the basics of ring and group theory.The text will be useful as a self-contained introduction to invariant theory.But it will also be invaluable as a historical source for anyone interested in the foundations of twentieth-century mathematics. ... Read more

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Colour has often been supposed to be a subjective property, a property to be analysed orretly in terms of the phenomenological aspects of human expereince.In contrast with subjectivism, an objectivist analysis of color takes color to be a property objects possess in themselves, independently of the character of human perceptual expereince.David Hilbert defends a form of objectivism that identifies color with a physical property of surfaces - their spectral reflectance. This analysis of color is shown to provide a more adequate account of the features of human color vision than its subjectivist rivals. The author's account of colro also recognises that the human perceptual system provides a limited and idiosyncratic picture of the world. These limitations are shown to be consistent with a realist account of colour and to provide the necessary tools for giving an analysis of common sense knowledge of color phenomena. ... Read more

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Chapters: David Hilbert, Parameterized Post-Newtonian Formalism, Adm Formalism, Scientific Formalism, Resolvent Formalism. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 44. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: David Hilbert (German pronunciation: ; January 23, 1862 February 14, 1943) was a German mathematician, recognized as one of the most influential and universal mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He discovered and developed a broad range of fundamental ideas in many areas, including invariant theory and the axiomatization of geometry. He also formulated the theory of Hilbert spaces, one of the foundations of functional analysis. Hilbert adopted and warmly defended Georg Cantor's set theory and transfinite numbers. A famous example of his leadership in mathematics is his 1900 presentation of a collection of problems that set the course for much of the mathematical research of the 20th century. Hilbert and his students contributed significantly to establishing rigor and some tools to the mathematics used in modern physics. He is also known as one of the founders of proof theory, mathematical logic and the distinction between mathematics and metamathematics. Hilbert, the first of two children and only son of Otto and Maria Therese (Erdtmann) Hilbert, was born in either Königsberg (according to Hilbert's own statement) or in Wehlau (today Znamensk, Kaliningrad Oblast)) near Königsberg where his father was occupied at the time of his birth in the Province of Prussia. In the fall of 1872, he entered the Friedrichskolleg Gymnasium (Collegium fridericianum, the same school that Immanuel Kant had attended 140 years before), but after an unhappy duration he transferred (fall 1879) to and graduated from (spring 1880) the more science-oriented Wilhelm Gymnasium. Upon graduation he enrolled ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=8302 ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Immanuel Kant, David Hilbert, Christian Goldbach, Gustav Kirchhoff, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Karl Weierstrass, Erich Von Drygalski, Friedrich Ernst Dorn, Johann Georg Baiter, Woldemar Voigt, Arnold Sommerfeld, Johann Gottfried Herder, Martin Chemnitz, Theodor Oberländer, Samuel Hartlib, Friedrich Von Gentz, Moshe Novomeysky, Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, Bernhard Fernow, Herbert Arthur Stuart, Gerhard Hoffmann, Hans-Jürgen Von Blumenthal, Hermann Minkowski, Martynas Mažvydas, Raphael Friedeberg, Kristijonas Donelaitis, Jan Kochanowski, Johann Jacoby, Stefan E. Warschawski, Magnus Von Braun, Bernd Von Freytag-Loringhoven, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, Johann Friedrich Reichardt, Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, Paul Friedländer, Friedrich Heinrich Albert Wangerin, Horst Ademeit, Eduard Von Simson, Friedrich Albrecht Zu Eulenburg, Rudolf Von Gottschall, Wojciech Kętrzyński, Karl William Kapp, Rudolph Koenig, Manuel García, Theodor Kaluza, Johann Christoph Gottsched, Gustav Von Saltzwedel, Botho Zu Eulenburg, Carl Neumann, Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum, Georg Voigt, Markus Herz, Edwin Klebs, Paul Hensel, Peter Crüger, Hugo Falkenheim, Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, Reinhold Rehs, Otto Hesse, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, Ewald Christian Von Kleist, Marie Jonas, Jakob Sigismund Beck, Paul Albert Gordan, Fritz Albert Lipmann, Wilhelm Eduard Albrecht, Emil Wiechert, Albrecht Von Hagen, Friedrich Gustav Von Bramann, Max Liedtke, Yeshayahu Forder, Ernst Wichert, Georg Klebs, Leopold Von Schrenck, Michael Kongehl, Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach, Baruch Osnia, Friedrich Goltz, Karl Bogislaus Reichert, Helmut Echternach, Georg Hermann Quincke, Richard Altmann, Abraham Calovius, Bernhard Weiss, Johann Sigismund Elsholtz, Alfred Clebsch, Theodor Goldstücker, Caspar Hennenberger, Ludwig Friedländer, Eduard Heine, Hermann August Hagen...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=14631 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Louis Pasteur, David Hilbert, Ivan Pavlov, Oswald Avery, Donald Knuth, James D. Watson, Svante Arrhenius, Kenneth Arrow, E. O. Wilson, Carl Woese, Louis Agassiz, Edward Witten, Ryōji Noyori, Roald Hoffmann, Murray Gell-Mann, Vladimir Arnold, Richard R. Ernst, Carlo Rubbia, Walter Gilbert, Grigory Barenblatt, François Arago, Lev Landau, Ahmed Zewail, Alexander Dallas Bache, Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, Georges Cuvier, Hannes Alfvén, Stanley B. Prusiner, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, David Baltimore, Arnold Sommerfeld, John Archibald Wheeler, Israel Gelfand, Renato Dulbecco, Norman Borlaug, Charles Philippe Leblond, Michael Stuart Brown, Martin David Kruskal, George Emil Palade, Steven Weinberg, Charles Hard Townes, Rita Levi-Montalcini, François Jacob, Louis Antoine de Bougainville, Vitaly Ginzburg, Igor Shafarevich, Viktor Hambardzumyan, Scott Tremaine, Oliver Smithies, Carl Størmer, Julius Axelrod, Sewall Wright, Gerard de Geer, Torsten Wiesel, Joshua Lederberg, Elias James Corey, Paul J. Crutzen, Arthur Kornberg, Motoo Kimura, Peter Goldreich, Abdus Suttar Khan, Friedrich Kohlrausch, Hugo de Vries, Walter Kohn, Edward Norton Lorenz, Walter Munk, Jean-Pierre Serre, Philip Warren Anderson, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Seymour Benzer, Rashid Sunyaev, Eilhard Mitscherlich, F. Albert Cotton, Matthew Meselson, Raoul Bott, Harold E. Varmus, Har Gobind Khorana, Richard Zare, Claude Allègre, Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Henri Cartan, Roy J. Glauber, Nikolay Semyonov, David H. Hubel, Gerhard Domagk, Fotis Kafatos, Bruce Alberts, Gabriel Lippmann, Anders Jonas Ångström, Ephraim Katzir, Manfred Eigen, Jean-Marie Lehn, George Andrew Olah, Paul Berg, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Harry B. Gray, Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, John Jacob Abel, Michael Rossmann, James F. Crow,... ... Read more

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Chapters: David Hilbert, Joseph Goebbels, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Corbinian, Leo Von Klenze, Matthias Weckmann, Ignaz Günther. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 94. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Paul Joseph Goebbels (often pronounced in English, German: ; 29 October 1897 1 May 1945) was a German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. As one of German dictator Adolf Hitler's closest associates and most devout followers, he was known for his zealous oratory and anti-Semitism. He was the chief architect of the Kristallnacht attack on the German Jews, which historians consider to be the beginning of the Final Solution, leading towards the genocide of the Holocaust. Goebbels earned a Ph.D. from Heidelberg University in 1921, writing his doctoral thesis on 18th century romantic drama; he then went on to work as a journalist and later a bank clerk and caller on the stock exchange. He also wrote novels and plays, but they were rejected by publishers. Goebbels came into contact with the Nazi Party in 1923 during the French occupation of the Ruhr and became a member in 1924. He was appointed Gauleiter (regional party leader) of Berlin. In this position, he put his propaganda skills to full use, combating the local socialist and communist parties with the help of Nazi papers and the paramilitary Stormtroopers, aka, Brownshirts, SA. By 1928, he had risen in the party ranks to become one of its most prominent members. Goebbels rose to power in 1933 along with Hitler and the Nazi Party and he was appointed Propaganda Minister. One of his first acts was the burning of books rejected by the Nazis. He exerted totalitarian control over the media, arts and information in Germany. In that position, he perfected the "Big Lie" technique of propaga...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=15777 ... Read more

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In mathematics and in signal processing, the Hilbert transform is a linear operator which takes a function, u, and produces a function, H, with the same domain. The Hilbert transform is named after David Hilbert, who first introduced the operator in order to solve a special case of the Riemann?Hilbert problem for holomorphic functions. It is a basic tool in Fourier analysis, and provides a concrete means for realizing the conjugate of a given function or Fourier series. Furthermore, in harmonic analysis, it is an example of a singular integral operator, and of a Fourier multiplier. The Hilbert transform is also important in the field of signal processing where it is used to derive the analytic representation of a signal u. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Carl Friedrich Gauss, David Hilbert, Werner Heisenberg, Enrico Fermi, Bernhard Riemann, Paul Ehrlich, Paul Dirac, Wolfgang Pauli, Eugene Wigner, Edward Teller, Jacob Grimm, Peter Debye, Friedrich Wöhler, Edmund Husserl, Felix Klein, Max Born, Wilhelm Grimm, Walther Nernst, Emmy Noether, Karl Schwarzschild, Christian Gottlob Heyne, Heinrich Ritter, Johann Matthias Gesner, Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker, Woldemar Voigt, Arnold Sommerfeld, Heinz Hopf, Rudolf Hermann Lotze, Karl Barth, Johann Friedrich Herbart, Albrecht Von Haller, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Rudolf Fleischmann, Lorenz Oken, Siegfried Flügge, Hans Kopfermann, Richard Dedekind, Ulrich Von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Matthias Kuhle, Gerhard Von Rad, Johann Stephan Pütter, Percy Ernst Schramm, Albrecht Ritschl, Johannes Stark, Peter Adolf Thiessen, Heinrich Ewald, Friedrich Kohlrausch, Viktor Meyer, Walter Gerlach, Hermann Minkowski, Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann, Georg Joos, Ludwig Prandtl, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Reinhold Mannkopff, James Franck, Fritz Sauter, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, Wilhelm Eduard Weber, Adolf Butenandt, Gerhard Herzberg, Adolf Reinach, Ernst Zermelo, Herbert Kraus, Wilhelm Biltz, Rudolf Von Jhering, Arnold Flammersfeld, Gottfried August Bürger, Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, Stefan E. Warschawski, Wilhelm Gesenius, Tobias Mayer, Manfred Eigen, Ludwig Gattermann, Elisabeth Blochmann, Walter Bauer, Johann David Michaelis, Carl Gustav Hempel, Johann David Köhler, Otto Wallach, Edmund Landau, Martin Noth, Georg Gottfried Gervinus, Ernst Käsemann, Wolfgang Sartorius Von Waltershausen, Georg Waitz, Georg Bühler, Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, Erwin Neher, Carl David Tolmé Runge, Hans-Georg Stephan, Gustav Cohn, Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=149896 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, Emmanuel Kant, David Hilbert, Felix Steiner, Beate Köstlin, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Werner R. Heymann, Frédéric Ier de Prusse, Udo Lattek, Zacharias Werner, Algis Budrys, Johann Gottfried Von Herder, Johann Georg Hamann, Johannes Blaskowitz, Arthur Zimmermann, Gustav Bauer, Lovis Corinth, Jacob Theodor Klein, Theodor Gottlieb Von Hippel le Jeune, Albert Abraham Michelson, Siegfried Lenz, Hermann Von Boyen, Katharina Szelinski-Singer, Alfred Clebsch, Ernest-Frédéric Iii de Saxe-Hildburghausen, Theodor Tolsdorff, Kurt Sanderling, Wilhelm Wien, Otto Nicolai, Hermann August Hagen, Rudolf Lipschitz, Robert Caspary, Alfred Goldscheider, Ernst Wiechert, Curt Lowens, Hugo Haase, Oskar Negt, Felix Bressart, Richard Schirrmann, Carl Schuricht, Edgar Froese, Fritz Schaudinn, Adolph Eduard Grube, Klaus-Dieter Sieloff, Renate Garisch-Culmberger, Hermann Sudermann, Wilhelm Sebastian Von Belling, Otto Wallach, Hans Woellke. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann, né le 24 janvier 1776 à Königsberg, en Prusse-Orientale, et mort le 25 juin 1822 à Berlin à l'âge de 46 ans, est un écrivain romantique et un compositeur allemand. Juriste, il sert dans l'administration prussienne de 1796 à 1806 puis de 1814 à sa mort. Également dessinateur et peintre, son indépendance d'esprit et son goût de la satire lui valent à plusieurs reprises de sérieux ennuis auprès de ses supérieurs hiérarchiques, qu'il n'hésite pas à caricaturer. Mais c'est son activité littéraire qui le rend célèbre : connu sous le nom d'Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann ou E.T.A. Hoffmann, il est l'auteur de nombreux contes (Märchen en allemand) comme L'Homme au sable ou Casse-noisette et le roi des souri...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Richard Courant (born January 8, 1888 ? January 27, 1972) was a German mathematician.Courant was born in Lublinitz in the German Empire's Prussian Province of Silesia. During his youth, his parents had to move quite often, to Glatz, Breslau, and in 1905 to Berlin. He stayed in Breslau and entered the university there. As he found the courses not demanding enough, he continued his studies in Zürich and Göttingen. Courant eventually became David Hilbert's assistant in Göttingen and obtained his doctorate there in 1910. He had to fight in World War I, but he was wounded and dismissed from the military service shortly after enlisting. ... Read more