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Significant figures : lives and works of trailblazing mathematicians
- Author
- Stewart, Ian, 1945- author.
- Title
- Significant figures : lives and works of trailblazing mathematicians / Ian Stewart
- Format
- Book
- Published
- London Profile Books, 2017. ©2017
- Description
- 305 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- 1. Do Not Disturb My Circles, Archimedes
- 2. Master of the Way, Liu Hui
- 3. Dixit Algorismi, Muhammad al-Khwarizmi
- 4. Innovator of the Infinite, Madhava of Sangamagrama
- 5. The Gambling Astrologer, Girolamo Cardano
- 6. The Last Theorem, Pierre de Fermat
- 7. System of the World, Isaac Newton
- 8. Master of Us All, Leonhard Euler
- 9. The Heat Operato, Joseph Fourier
- 10. Invisible Scaffolding, Carl Friedrich Gauss
- 11. Bending the Rules, Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky
- 12. Radicals and Revolutionaries, Evariste Galois
- 13. Enchantress of Number, Augusta Ada King
- 14. The Laws of Thought, George Boole
- 15. Musician of the Primes, Bernhard Riemann
- 16. Cardinal of the Continuum, Georg Cantor
- 17. The First Great Lady, Sofia Kovalevskaia
- 18. Ideas Rose in Crowds, Henri Poincare
- 19. We Must Know, We Shall Know, David Hilbert
- 20. Overthrowing Academic Order, Emmy Noether
- 21. The Formula Man, Srinivasa Ramanujan
- 22. Incomplete and Undecidable, Kurt Godel
- 23. The Machine Stops, Alan Turing
- 24. Father of Fractals, Benoit Mandelbrot
- 25. Outside In, William Thurston.
- Summary
- Ian Stewart presents the extraordinary lives and amazing discoveries of twenty-five of history's greatest mathematicians from Archimedes to William Thurston. --Back cover.
- Subject headings
- Mathematicians--Biography. Mathematics--History.
- Genre heading
- Biographies. Biography. History. Biographies.
- ISBN
- 1781258996 9781781258996 178125429X 9781781254295