Men of mathematics / by E.T. Bell.

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    • Publication Information:
      First Touchstone edition
    • Content Notes:
      Introduction -- Modern minds in ancient bodies: Zeno, Eudoxus, Archimedes -- Gentleman, soldier, and mathematician: Descartes -- The prince of amateurs: Fermat -- "Greatness and misery of man": Pascal -- On the seashore: Newton -- Master of all trades: Leibniz -- Nature or nurture?: the Bernoullis -- Analysis incarnate: Euler -- A lofty pyramid: Lagrange -- From peasant to snob: Laplace -- Friends of an emperor: Monge, Fourier -- The day of glory: Poncelet -- The prince of mathematicians: Gauss -- Mathematics and windmills: Cauchy -- The Copernicus of geometry: Lobatchewsky -- Genius and poverty: Abel -- The great algorist: Jacobi -- An Irish tragedy: Hamilton -- Genius and stupidity: Galois -- Invariant twins: Sylvester, Cayley -- Master and pupil: Weierstrass, Sonja Kowalewski -- Complete independence: Boole -- The man, not the method: Hermite -- The doubter: Kronecker -- Anima candida: Riemann -- Arithmetic the second: Kummer, Dedekind -- The last universalist: Poincare -- Paradise lost?: Cantor.
    • Notes:
      "The lives and achievements of the great mathematicians from Zeno to Poincare"--Cover.
      "A Touchstone book."
      Includes index.
      1 16
    • ISBN:
      9780671628185
      0671628186 (pbk.) :
    • Accession Number:
      ccp.118575