Makers of mathematics

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This book recounts the history of mathematics as revealed in the lives and writings of distinguished mathematicians such as Archimedes, Descartes, Fermat, Pascal, Newton, Leibniz, Euler, Gauss, Hamilton, Einstein, and more. The author introduces and explains the roles of these gifted and colorful figures in the development of mathematics as well as the ways in which their work relates to mathematics as a whole. Although the emphasis is primarily biographical, the author also discusses major his…

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Title Statements

Full title :Makers of mathematics / Stuart Hollingdale.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2006.
Edition:Dover ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Dover Publications
Place of Publication:Mineola, N.Y
Language:eng
Publication Date:2006.

Notes

Originally published: London ; New York : Penguin Books, 1989.

The Physical Object

Description:xv, 439 pages : : illustrations ; : 22 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0486450074, 9780486450070
oclc:ocm62782269
LC Classification:QA21
Dewey Decimal:510.9

The beginnings -- Early Greek mathematics -- Euclid and Apollonius -- Archimedes and the later Hellenistic period -- The long interlude -- The Renaissance -- Descartes, Fermat and Pascal -- Newton -- Newton's Principia -- Newton's circle -- Leibniz -- Euler -- D'Alembert and his contemporaries -- Gauss -- Hamilton and Boole -- Dedekind and Cantor -- Einstein.

Subjects

Biographies History Mathematicians Mathematicians -- Biography Mathématiciens -- Biographies mathematics Mathematics -- History Mathématiques -- Histoire