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Of men and numbers : the story of the great mathematicians /

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Explanations of these mathematical thinkers' invaluable contributions to the edifice of modern mathematical thought and to man's understanding of himself and his universe.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Muir, Jane (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Dover Publications, 1996.
Subjects:
Mathematicians > Biography.
Mathématiciens > Biographies.
Mathematicians.
Mathematicians > Biography
Biography
Biography.
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Pythagoras, 582 B.C. -507 B.C. ; Euclid, c.300 B.C. ; and Archimedes, 287 B.C.-212 B.C.
  • Cardano, 1501-1576
  • René Descartes, 1596-1650
  • Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662
  • Isaac Newton, 1642-1727
  • Leonard Euler, 1707-1783
  • Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777-1855
  • Nicholas Lobatchevsky, 1793-1856
  • Évariste Galois, 1811-1832
  • Georg Cantor, 1845-1918.