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2. List of important publications in mathematics - Wikipedia

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   The first book on the systematic algebraic solutions of linear and quadratic equations by the Persian scholar Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī. The book is considered to be the foundation of modern algebra and Islamic mathematics. [10] The word "algebra" itself is derived from the al-Jabr in the title of the book. [11]

3. The Man Who Loved Only Numbers - Wikipedia

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   A large part of the book concerns Erdős, but a lot of it is about other mathematicians, past and present, including Ronald Graham, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Srinivasa Ramanujan, and G.H. Hardy. [4] In the book, Erdős enjoys listening to Hardy when he speaks about Ramanujan.

4. Men of Mathematics - Wikipedia

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   Men of Mathematics: The Lives and Achievements of the Great Mathematicians from Zeno to Poincaré is a book on the history of mathematics published in 1937 by Scottish-born American mathematician and science fiction writer E. T. Bell (1883–1960). After a brief chapter on three ancient mathematicians, it covers the lives of about forty ...

5. G. H. Hardy - Wikipedia

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   Godfrey Harold Hardy FRS [1] (7 February 1877 – 1 December 1947) [2] was an English mathematician, known for his achievements in number theory and mathematical analysis. [3] [4] In biology, he is known for the Hardy–Weinberg principle, a basic principle of population genetics.

6. In Pursuit of the Unknown - Wikipedia

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   In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World is a 2012 nonfiction book by British mathematician Ian Stewart FRS CMath FIMA, published by Basic Books. [3] In the book, Stewart traces the history of the role of mathematics in human history, beginning with the Pythagorean theorem (Pythagorean equation) [4] to the equation that transformed twenty-first century financial markets ...

7. Diophantus - Wikipedia

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   Diophantus of Alexandria [1] (born c. AD 200 – c. 214; died c. AD 284 – c. 298) was a Greek mathematician, who was the author of two main works: On Polygonal Numbers, which survives incomplete, and the Arithmetica in thirteen books, most of it extant, made up of arithmetical problems that are solved through algebraic equations.

8. Kurt Gödel - Wikipedia

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   Proceedings of the international Congress of Mathematicians in Cambridge, Vol. 1, pp. 175–81. In English translation: Kurt Gödel, 1992. On Formally Undecidable Propositions Of Principia Mathematica And Related Systems, tr. B. Meltzer, with a comprehensive introduction by Richard Braithwaite. Dover reprint of the 1962 Basic Books edition.

9. Srinivasa Ramanujan - Wikipedia

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   Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar [a] (22 December 1887 – 26 April 1920) was an Indian mathematician.Often regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, though he had almost no formal training in pure mathematics, he made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems then ...