J. L. Casti
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
"Casti brilliantly recreates the solutions to the five greatest mathematcal problmes of all time: The four-color map problem, Fermat's last theorem, the Continuum hypothesis, Kepler's conjecture, and Hilbert's tenth problem."--Jacket.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The modern industrialized world is a complex system on a scale never before witnessed in the history of humankind. Technologically dependent, globally interconnected, it offers seemingly limitless conveniences, choices, and opportunities. Yet this same modern civilization may be as unstable as a house of cards, fear complexity scientists like John Casti. All it would take to "downsize" our way of life is a nudge from what Casti calls an "X-event,"...
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