Significant figures : the lives and work of great mathematicians / Ian Stewart.
Tracing the evolution of mathematics over the course of two millennia to tell the story of how the field came into being, Significant Figures will educate and delight aspiring mathematicians and experts alike.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780465096121
- ISBN: 0465096123
- Physical Description: 303 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Edition: First United States edition
- Publisher: New York : Basic Books, 2017.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-290) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Do not disturb my circles: Archimedes -- Master of the Way: Liu Hui -- Dixit algorismi: Muhammad al-Khwarizmi -- Innovator of the infinite: Madhava of Sangamagrama -- The gambling astrologer: Girolamo Cardano -- The last theorem: Pierre de Fermat -- System of the world: Isaac Newton -- Master of us all: Leonhard Euler -- The heat operator: Joseph Fourier -- Invisible scaffolding: Carl Friedrich Gauss -- Bending the rules: Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky -- Radicals and revolutionaries: Évariste Galois -- Enchantress of a number: Augusta Ada King -- The laws of thought: George Boole -- Musician of the primes: Bernhard Riemann -- Cardinal of the continuum: Georg Cantor -- The first great lady: Sofia Kovalevskaia -- Ideas rose in crowds: Henri Poincaré -- We must know, we shall know: David Hilbert -- Overthrowing academic order: Emmy Noether -- The formula man: Srinivasa Ramanujan -- Incomplete and undecidable: Kurt Gödel -- The machine stops: Alan Turing -- Father of fractals: Benoit Mandelbrot -- Outside in: William Thurston -- Mathematical people.
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- Subject:
- Mathematicians > Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
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- 7 of 7 copies available at NC Cardinal.
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