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Title: Significant Figures: Lives & Works of Trailblazing Mathematicians
Author: STEWART IAN
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 29/08/2018
Imprint: PROFILE BOOKS (UK)
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
Which mathematician elaborated a crucial concept the night before he died in a duel? Who funded his maths and medical career through gambling and chess? Who learned maths from her wallpaper?
Ian Stewart presents the extraordinary lives and amazing discoveries of twenty-five of history’s greatest mathematicians from Archimedes and Liu Hui to Benoit Mandelbrot and William Thurston. His subjects are the inspiring individuals from all over the world who have made crucial contributions to mathematics. They include the rediscovered geniuses Srinivasa Ramanujan and Emmy Noether, alongside the towering figures of Muhammad al-Khwarizmi (inventor of the algorithm), Pierre de Fermat, Isaac Newton, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, Bernhard Reimann (precursor to Einstein), Henri Poincare, Ada Lovelace (arguably the first computer programmer), Kurt Godel and Alan Turing.
Ian Stewart’s vivid accounts are fascinating in themselves and, taken together, cohere into a riveting history of key steps in the development of mathematics.
ISBN: 9781781254301
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm