Remarkable Mathematicians
Remarkable Mathematicians
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USDIoan James introduces and profiles sixty mathematicians from an era which saw mathematics freed from its classical origins to develop into its modern form. The characters, all born between 1700 and 1910, come from a wide range of countries, and all made an important contribution to mathematics, through their ideas, their teaching, their influence, and so on. The 2003 book is organised chronologically into ten chapters, each of which contains potted life stories of six mathematicians. The players James has chosen to portray are sufficiently representative that their stories, when read in sequence, convey in human terms something of the way in which mathematics developed.
- Unique collection of profiles chosen to convey historical development of a golden age of mathematics
- No equations and can be read as human interest, history or philosophy
- Every portrayal is accompanied by a portrait
Reviews & endorsements
"For those who plan to teach mathematics, some of these stories would make interesting asides in lectures of any level...Remarkable Mathematicians highlights the importance of personality and human interaction on the development of mathematical theory from the early 18th century to the early 20th century." Math Horizons
Product details
February 2003Paperback
9780521520942
448 pages
229 × 153 × 25 mm
0.65kg
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. From Euler to Legendre
- 2. From Fourier to Cauchy
- 3. From Abel to Grassmann
- 4. From Kummer to Cayley
- 5. From Hermite to Lie
- 6. From Cantor to Hilbert
- 7. From Moore to Takagi
- 8. From Hardy to Lefschetz
- 9. From Birkhoff to Alexander
- 10. From Banach to von Neumann
- Epilogue
- Further reading.
