Math Makers
The Lives and Works of 50 Famous Mathematicians
Guilford, Connecticut : Prometheus Books, [2020]
Format: Book
Description: xiv, 420 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
"Two veteran math educators concisely profile leading mathematicians throughout history highlighting their often unusual personalities and lives while giving average readers insights into the importance of their mathematical discoveries."-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Introduction -- Thales of Miletus: Greek (ca. 624-546 BCE) -- Pythagoras: Greek (575-500 BCE) -- Eudoxus of Cnidus: Greek (390-337 BCE) -- Euclid: Greek (ca. 300 BCE) -- Archimedes: Greek (ca. 287-ca. 212 BCE) -- Eratosthenes: Greek (276-194 BCE) -- Claudius Ptolemy: Greco-Roman (100-170) -- Diophantus of Alexandria: Hellenistic Greek (ca. 201-285) -- Brahmagupta: Indian (598-668) -- Leonardo Pisano Bigollo, "Fibonacci": Italian (1170-1250) -- Gerolamo Cardano: Italian (1501-1576) -- John Napier: Scottish (1550-1617) -- Johannes Kepler: German (1571- 1630) -- René Descartes: French (1596-1650) -- Pierre de Fermat: French (1607-1665) -- Blaise Pascal: French (1623-1662) -- Isaac Newton: English (1642-1727) -- Gottfried Wilhelm (von) Leibniz: German (1646-1716) -- Giovanni Ceva: Italian (1647-1734) -- Robert Simson: Scottish (1687-1768) -- Christian Goldbach: German (1690-1764) -- The Bernoullis: Swiss (1700-1782) -- Leonhard Euler: Swiss (1707-1783) -- Maria Gaetana Agnesi: Italian (1718-1799) -- Pierre Simon Laplace: French (1749-1827) -- Lorenzo Mascheroni: Italian (1750-1800) -- Joseph-Louis Lagrange: French/Italian (1736-1813) -- Sophie Germain: French (1776-1831) -- Carl Friedrich Gauss: German (1777-1855) -- Charles Babbage: English (1791-1871) -- Niels Henrik Abel: Norwegian (1802-1829) -- Évariste Galois: French (1811-1832) -- James Joseph Sylvester: English (1814-1897) -- Ada Lovelace: English (1815-1852) -- George Boole: English (1815-1864) -- Bernhard Riemann: German (1826-1866) -- Georg Cantor: German (1845-1918) -- Sofia Kovalevskaya: Russian (1850-1891) -- Giuseppe Peano: Italian (1858-1932) -- David Hilbert: German (1862-1943) -- G.H. Hardy: English (1877-1947) -- Emmy Noether: German (1882-1935) -- Srinivasa Ramanujan: Indian (1887-1920) -- John von Neumann: Hungarian-American (1903-1957) -- Kurt Godel: Austrian-American (1906-1978) -- Alan Turing: English (1912-1954) -- Paul Erdős: Hungarian (1913-1996) -- Herbert A. Hauptman: American (1917-2011) -- Benoit Mandelbrot: Polish-American (1924-2010) -- Maryam Mirzakhani: Iranian (1977-2017).
ISBN:
9781633885202
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
MATH Pos | North Main | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-420).