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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13559123 Title: Men of mathematics Author: Eric Temple Bell Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 1986, ©1937. ISBN/ISSN: 0671628186 9780671628185 9781435280830 1435280830 0833500228 9780833500229 OCLC:13559123

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Men of mathematics

Author:	Eric Temple Bell
Publisher:	New York : Simon & Schuster, 1986, ©1937.
Series:	Touchstone book.
Edition/Format:	Print book : English : 1st Touchstone edView all editions and formats
Summary:	This volume looks at the lives and contribution of 35 pioneers of modern mathematics, from Zeno to Poincaré.
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Subjects	Mathematicians. Mathematics -- History. Mathématiciens -- Biographies. View all subjects
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Genre/Form:	History Biographies
Material Type:	Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
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ISBN:	0671628186 9780671628185 9781435280830 1435280830 0833500228 9780833500229
OCLC Number:	13559123
Notes:	"A Touchstone book." Includes index.
Description:	xvii, 590 pages ; 22 cm.
Contents:	Introduction -- Modern minds in ancient bodies [Zeno (fifth century B.C.), Eudoxus (408-355 B.C., Archimedes (287?-212 B.C.)] -- Gentleman, soldier, and mathematician [Decartes (1596-1650)] -- The prince of amateurs [Fermat (1601-1665)]-- "Greatness and misery of man" [Pascal (1623-1662)] -- On the seashore [Newton (1642-1727)] -- Master of all trades [Leibniz (1646-1716)] -- Nature or nurture? [The Bernoullis (seventeenth and eighteenth centuries)] -- Analysis incarnate [Euler (1707-1783)] -- A Lofty pyramid [Lagranade (1736-1813)] -- From peasant to snob [LaPlace (1749-1827)] -- Friends of an emperor [Monge (1746-1818), Fourier (1768-1830)] -- The day of glory [Poncelet (1788-1867)] -- The prince of mathematicians [Gauss (1777-1855)] -- Mathematics and Windmills [Cauchy (1789-1857)] -- The Copernicus of geometry [Lobatchewsky (1793-1856)] -- Genius and poverty [Abel (1802-1829)] -- The great algorist [Jacobi (1804 -- 1851)] -- An Irish tragedy [Hamilton (1805 -- 1865)] -- Genius and stupidity [Galois (1811 -- 1832)] -- Invariant twins [Sylvester (1814-1897), Cayley (1821-1895)] -- Master and pupil [Weierstrass (1815-1897), Sonja Kowalewski (1850-1891)] -- Complete independence [Boole (1815-1864)] -- The Man, not the method [Hermite (1822-1901)] -- The doubter [Kronecker (1823-1891)] -- Anima candida [Riemann (1826-1866)] -- Arithmetic the second [Kummer (1810-1893)] -- The last universalist [Poincare (1854-1912)] -- Paradise lost? [Cantor (1845-1918)].
Series Title:	Touchstone book.
Responsibility:	by E.T. Bell.
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