| Description |
xiii, 1160 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Euclid (c325 BC-265 BC) -- Archimedes (287 BC-212 BC) -- Diophantus (third century AD) -- René Descartes (1596-1650) -- Isaac Newton (1642-1727) -- Pierre Simon de Laplace (1749-1827) -- Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) -- Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) -- Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789-1857) -- George Boole (1815-1864) -- George Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) -- Karl Weierstrass (1815-1897) -- Richard Julius Wilhelm Dedekind (1831-1916) -- Georg Cantor (1845-1918) -- Henri Lebesgue (1875-1941) -- Kurt Gödel (1906-1978) -- Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954) |
| Notes |
Buesst bequest |
| Subject |
Mathematics.
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Mathematics -- History.
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Mathematicians -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Author |
Hawking, Stephen, 1942-2018.
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| LC no. |
2005924493 |
| ISBN |
0762419229 |
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9780762419227 |
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