Mathematical  Culture and Thought

Mathematical Culture and Thought

Some New Approaches to Hilbert's Weakened Sixteenth Problem

Document Type : Review

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Department of Pure Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, University of Kashan, Iran
Abstract
In this paper, we introduce the  weakened Hilbert's 16th problem and review the latest approaches to its solution. This problem is one of the simplified versions of Hilbert's 16th problem, which is still an open problem despite nearly one hundred and twenty years of serious research and the publication of hundreds of books and thousands of articles.
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Volume 40, Issue 1 - Serial Number 68
September 2021
Pages 101-118

  • Receive Date 18 August 2019
  • Revise Date 10 January 2022
  • Accept Date 27 September 2019
  • Publish Date 23 August 2021