Fields Medallists' Lectures (Third Edition) / Edition 3

by Michael Atiyah, Chi Tat Chong, Daniel Iagolnitzer

Overview

Although the Fields Medal does not have the same public recognition as the Nobel Prizes, they share a similar intellectual standing. It is restricted to one field — that of mathematics. The medal is awarded to the best mathematicians who are 40 or younger, every four years.A list of Fields Medallists and their contributions provides a bird's-eye view of the major developments in mathematics over the past 80 years. It highlights the areas in which, at various times, the greatest progress has been made.The third edition of Fields Medallists' Lectures features additional contributions from: John W Milnor (1962), Enrico Bombieri (1974), Gerd Faltings (1986), Andrei Okounkov (2006), Terence Tao (2006), Cédric Villani (2010), Elon Lindenstrauss (2010), Ngô Bao Châu (2010), Stanislav Smirnov (2010).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789814696173
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	10/06/2015
Series:	World Scientific Series In 21st Century Mathematics , #1
Edition description:	3rd Revised ed.
Pages:	1116
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 2.25(d)