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The Poincare Conjecture: In Search of the Shape of the Universe
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u/dla26 ยท 12 pointsr/learnmath

/u/cm362084 already recommended The Millennium Problems by Keith Devlin, which is literally exactly what you're looking for. If you're interested in other great books about math, 2 I'd recommend are Journey through Genius by William Dunham and Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh.

Journey through Genius is organized such that every other chapter is some important proof (detailed out step-by-step), and the remaining chapters provide the historical/biographical context for those proofs. There are some interesting stories included in the book such as how mathematicians in the middle ages would keep their techniques secret, since there was a chance that another mathematician would come to town and challenge them to a math duel.

Fermat's Enigma tells the story of how Andrew Wiles was able to prove Fermat's Last Theorem, which states that there are no integer solutions to the equation a^n + b^n = c^n for n>2. (This one was a century problem last century, but since it was solved, there was no need to list it as a Millennium Problem.) This is a bit more storytelling than actual math, though Singh doesn't shy away from going a little bit into detail about the underlying math.

The last book to consider is The Poincare Conjecture by Donal O'Shea. The Poincare Conjecture was one of the Millennium problems and was recently solved. I should point out that I can't recommend this book personally because too much of it went over my head. That says more about me than the book, though, so I don't want to leave it off the list just because I was too dumb to get it. :) I never took any classes in topology, so I may want to read up on that and give this book another shot.