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Genre/Form: | Biography Biographies |
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Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jane Muir |
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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Abstract:
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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