Significant figures : the lives and work of great mathematicians
Record details
- ISBN: 9780465096121
- ISBN: 0465096123
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Physical Description:
print
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.
Available copies
- 7 of 7 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 7 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jacksonville Main Library | 510.922 STE (Text) | 36015000662011 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
