Bibliograph

Makers of mathematics, Stuart Hollingdale

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Makers of mathematics, Stuart Hollingdale

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Makers of mathematics

Medium

electronic resource eBook

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Responsibility statement

Stuart Hollingdale

Summary

This book recounts the history of mathematics as revealed in the lives and writings of distinguished mathematicians such as Archimedes, Descartes, Fermat, Pascal, Newton, Leibniz, Euler, Gauss, Hamilton, Einstein, and more. The author introduces and explains the roles of these gifted and colorful figures in the development of mathematics as well as the ways in which their work relates to mathematics as a whole. Although the emphasis is primarily biographical, the author also discusses major historical themes and explains new ideas and techniques

Table Of Contents

The beginnings -- Early Greek mathematics -- Euclid and Apollonius -- Archimedes and the later Hellenistic period -- The long interlude -- The Renaissance -- Descartes, Fermat and Pascal -- Newton -- Newton's Principia -- Newton's circle -- Leibniz -- Euler -- D'Alembert and his contemporaries -- Gauss -- Hamilton and Boole -- Dedekind and Cantor -- Einstein

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