Of Men and Numbers
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Of Men and Numbers

The Story of the Great Mathematicians

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Of Men and Numbers

The Story of the Great Mathematicians

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While mathematics itself may be a formidable subject for many, the lives and accomplishments of history's greatest mathematicians—from Pythagoras to Cantor—offer fascinating reading.In this delightful and informative recounting, for example, we learn how Pascal's life was abruptly changed by a family of fanatical bonesetters, how Descartes was influenced by three dreams, and how the scholarly Swiss Leonhard Euler (whose famous conjecture was finally disproved in 1959, after 177 years) almost ended up in the Russian navy.Here, too, are Cardano, the gambler who becomes the 16th century's most fashionable doctor; Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, often considered the three greatest mathematicians of all times; Lobatchevsky, the inventor of non-Euclidean geometry; and the tragic Galois, a founder of modern higher algebra.In addition to a wealth of interesting and informative anecdotes, presented in a delightfully conversational style, the author offers lucid, accessible explanations of these thinkers' invaluable contributions to the edifice of modern mathematical thought and to man's understanding of himself and his universe.—Print ed.

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Publisher
Barakaldo Books
Year
2020
ISBN
9781839745225
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Science General
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Title page
  2. TABLE OF CONTENTS
  3. DEDICATION
  4. Pythagoras, Euclid, Archimedes
  5. Cardano-1501-1576
  6. René Descartes-1596-1650
  7. Blaise Pascal-1623-1662
  8. Isaac Newton-1642-1727
  9. Leonhard Euler-1707-1783
  10. Carl Friedrich Gauss-1777-1855
  11. Nicholas Lobatchevsky-1793-1856
  12. Évariste Galois-1811-1832
  13. Georg Cantor-1845-1918
  14. Selected Bibliography