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| Genre/Form: | Biography Biographies |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Turnbull, H. W. (Herbert Westren), 1885-1961. Great mathematicians. New York, New York University Press, 1961 (OCoLC)625812960 |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
H W Turnbull |
| OCLC Number: | 699681 |
| Description: | 141 p. illus. 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Early beginnings: Thales, Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans -- Eudoxus and the Athenian school -- Alexandria: Euclid, Archimedes, and Apollonius -- The second Alexandrian school: Pappus and Diophantus -- The Renaissance: Napier and Kepler; the rise of analysis -- Descartes and Pascal: the early French geometers and their contemporaries -- Isaac Newton -- The Bernoullis and Euler -- McLaurin and Lagrange -- Gauss and Hamilton: the nineteenth century -- More recent developments. |
Abstract:
A biography of mathematics includes stories of great mathematicians from the 6th century B.C. to the present.
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