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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 ...
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Bell's later book Development of Mathematics has been less famous, but his biographer Constance Reid finds it has fewer weaknesses. [16] His book on Fermat's Last Theorem, The Last Problem, was published the year after his death and is a hybrid of social history and the history of mathematics. [17]
God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History is a 2005 anthology, edited by Stephen Hawking, of "excerpts from thirty-one of the most important works in the history of mathematics." [1] The title of the book is a reference to a quotation attributed to mathematician Leopold Kronecker, who once wrote that "God ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "1937 non-fiction books" ... Men of Mathematics; Middletown in Transition : A Study in Cultural Conflicts ...
Notable and unusual is the physically motivated discussion of the functions of vector calculus in his book with Sokolnikoff. He is known for the Redheffer matrix, the Redheffer star product, and for (with Charles Eames) his 1966 timeline of mathematics entitled Men of Modern Mathematics that was printed and distributed by IBM.
He was initially home schooled by his uncle Lehman, who instructed him in the classical languages and elements of mathematics. In 1816, the twelve-year-old Jacobi went to the Potsdam Gymnasium, where students were taught all the standard subjects: classical languages, history, philology, mathematics, sciences, etc. As a result of the good ...
Edward Kingsley Wakeford (E. K. Wakeford; 15 June 1894 – 26 July 1916) was an English geometer.. Born at Plymouth, England, the son of Edward W. Wakeford of Gibraltar, E. K. was educated at Borden Grammar School and Clifton College then entered Trinity College, Cambridge with a mathematics scholarship in 1912. [1]