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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33104006 Title: Of men and numbers : the story of the great mathematicians Author: Jane Muir Publisher: New York : Dover Publications, 1996. ISBN/ISSN: 0486289737 9780486289731 OCLC:33104006

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Of men and numbers : the story of the great mathematicians

Author:	Jane Muir
Publisher:	New York : Dover Publications, 1996.
Edition/Format:	Print book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	Explanations of these mathematical thinkers' invaluable contributions to the edifice of modern mathematical thought and to man's understanding of himself and his universe.
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Subjects	Mathematicians -- Biography. Mathématiciens -- Biographies. Mathematicians. View all subjects
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Genre/Form:	Biographies Biography
Material Type:	Biography, Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	Jane Muir Find more information about:
ISBN:	0486289737 9780486289731
OCLC Number:	33104006
Notes:	Originally published: New York : Dodd, Mead, 1961.
Description:	249 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents:	Pythagoras, 582 B.C. -507 B.C. ; Euclid, c.300 B.C. ; and Archimedes, 287 B.C.-212 B.C. -- Cardano, 1501-1576 -- René Descartes, 1596-1650 -- Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662 -- Isaac Newton, 1642-1727 -- Leonard Euler, 1707-1783 -- Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777-1855 -- Nicholas Lobatchevsky, 1793-1856 -- Évariste Galois, 1811-1832 -- Georg Cantor, 1845-1918.
Other Titles:	Of men & numbers
Responsibility:	Jane Muir.
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Explanations of these mathematical thinkers' invaluable contributions to the edifice of modern mathematical thought and to man's understanding of himself and his universe.

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