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by Jane Muir
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ISBN: 0486289737 Dover Publications Price: $10.95 |
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Fascinating accounts of the lives and accomplishments of history's greatest mathematical minds, from Pythagoras to Georg Cantor. Charming anecdotes about Descartes, Euler, Pascal, many more, as well as accessible discussions of their contributions to mathematical thought. 30 diagrams. Bibliography.
Table of Contents for Of Men and Numbers: The Story of the Great Mathematicians
| "Pythagoras, Euclid, and Archimedes" | |||||||
| Cardano | |||||||
| René Descartes | |||||||
| Blaise Pascal | |||||||
| Isaac Newton | |||||||
| Leonhard Euler | |||||||
| Carl Friedrich Gauss | |||||||
| Nicholas Lobatchevsky | |||||||
| Evariste Galois | |||||||
| Georg Cantor | |||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||
| Index |