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| Title | Math makers: the lives and works of 50 famous mathematicians |
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| Creators | Posamentier Alfred S., |
| Other creators | Spreitzer Christian |
| Collection | Электронные книги зарубежных издательств ; Общая коллекция |
| Subjects | Mathematicians — Biography. ; Mathematics — History. ; Mathematicians. ; Mathematics. ; EBSCO eBooks |
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| Language | English |
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| Record key | on1079402062 |
| Record create date | 12/11/2018 |
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"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."--.
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- MATH MAKERS
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Thales of Miletus: Greek (ca. 624–546 BCE)
- Chapter 2. Pythagoras: Greek (575–500 BCE)
- Chapter 3. Eudoxus of Cnidus : Greek (390–337 BCE)
- Chapter 4. Euclid: Greek (ca. 300 BCE)
- Chapter 5. Archimedes: Greek (ca. 287–ca. 212 BCE)
- Chapter 6. Eratosthenes: Greek (276–194 BCE)
- Chapter 7. Claudius Ptolemy: Greco-Roman (100–170)
- Chapter 8. Diophantus of Alexandria: Hellenistic Greek (ca. 201–285)
- Chapter 9. Brahmagupta: Indian (598–668)
- Chapter 10. Leonardo Pisano Bigollo, “Fibonacci”: Italian (1170–1250)
- Chapter 11. Gerolamo Cardano: Italian (1501–1576)
- Chapter 12. John Napier: Scottish (1550–1617)
- Chapter 13. Johannes Kepler: German (1571–1630)
- Chapter 14. René Descartes: French (1596–1650)
- Chapter 15. Pierre de Fermat: French (1607–1665)
- Chapter 16. Blaise Pascal: French (1623–1662)
- Chapter 17. Isaac Newton: English (1642–1727)
- Chapter 18. Gottfried Wilhelm (von) Leibniz: German (1646–1716)
- Chapter 19. Giovanni Ceva: Italian (1647–1734)
- Chapter 20. Robert Simson: Scottish (1687–1768)
- Chapter 21. Christian Goldbach: German (1690–1764)
- Chapter 22. The Bernoullis: Swiss (1700–1782)
- Chapter 23. Leonhard Euler: Swiss (1707–1783)
- Chapter 24. Maria Gaetana Agnesi: Italian (1718–1799)
- Chapter 25. Pierre Simon Laplace: French (1749–1827)
- Chapter 26. Lorenzo Mascheroni: Italian (1750–1800)
- Chapter 27. Joseph-Louis Lagrange: French/Italian (1736–1813)
- Chapter 28. Sophie Germain: French (1776–1831)
- Chapter 29. Carl Friedrich Gauss: German (1777–1855)
- Chapter 30. Charles Babbage: English (1791–1871)
- Chapter 31. Niels Henrik Abel: Norwegian (1802–1829)
- Chapter 32. Évariste Galois: French (1811–1832)
- Chapter 33. James Joseph Sylvester: English (1814–1897)
- Chapter 34. Ada Lovelace: English (1815–1852)
- Chapter 35. George Boole: English (1815–1864)
- Chapter 36. Bernhard Riemann: German (1826–1866)
- Chapter 37. Georg Cantor: German (1845–1918)
- Chapter 38. Sofia Kovalevskaya: Russian (1850–1891)
- Chapter 39. Giuseppe Peano: Italian (1858–1932)
- Chapter 40. David Hilbert: German (1862–1943)
- Chapter 41. G. H. Hardy: English (1877–1947)
- Chapter 42. Emmy Noether: German (1882–1935)
- Chapter 43. Srinivasa Ramanujan: Indian (1887–1920)
- Chapter 44. John von Neumann: Hungarian-American (1903–1957)
- Chapter 45. Kurt Gödel: Austrian-American (1906–1978)
- Chapter 46. Alan Turing: English (1912–1954)
- Chapter 47. Paul Erdős: Hungarian (1913–1996)
- Chapter 48. Herbert A. Hauptman: American (1917–2011)
- Chapter 49. Benoit Mandelbrot: Polish-American (1924–2010)
- Chapter 50. Maryam Mirzakhani: Iranian (1977–2017)
- Epilogue
- Appendix: Hilbert’s Axioms
- Notes
- References
