Men of mathematics / (Record no. 376850)
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| control field | 1932750 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
| control field | OSt |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20190304143635.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 190304t1937 nyu 001 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780671628185 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Transcribing agency | AIT |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 510.922 |
| -- | 925.1 |
| Edition number | 23rd ed. |
| Item number | BEL |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Bell, Eric Temple, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1883-1960. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Men of mathematics / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | by E.T. Bell. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Simon & Schuster, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 1986, c1937. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xvii, 590 p. ; |
| Dimensions | 22 cm. |
| 490 0# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | A Touchstone book |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Includes index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Introduction --<br/>Modern minds in ancient bodies [Zeno (fifth century B.C.), Eudoxus (408-355 B.C., Archimedes (287?-212 B.C.)] --<br/>Gentleman, soldier, and mathematician [Decartes (1596-1650)] --<br/>The prince of amateurs [Fermat (1601-1665)]--<br/>"Greatness and misery of man" [Pascal (1623-1662)] --<br/>On the seashore [Newton (1642-1727)] --<br/>Master of all trades [Leibniz (1646-1716)] --<br/>Nature or nurture? [The Bernoullis (seventeenth and eighteenth centuries)] --<br/>Analysis incarnate [Euler (1707-1783)] --<br/>A Lofty pyramid [Lagranade (1736-1813)] --<br/>From peasant to snob [LaPlace (1749-1827)] --<br/>Friends of an emperor [Monge (1746-1818), Fourier (1768-1830)] --<br/>The day of glory [Poncelet (1788-1867)] --<br/>The prince of mathematicians [Gauss (1777-1855)] --<br/>Mathematics and Windmills [Cauchy (1789-1857)] --<br/>The Copernicus of geometry [Lobatchewsky (1793-1856)] --<br/>Genius and poverty [Abel (1802-1829)] --<br/>The great algorist [Jacobi (1804 --<br/>1851)] --<br/>An Irish tragedy [Hamilton (1805 --<br/>1865)] --<br/>Genius and stupidity [Galois (1811 --<br/>1832)] --<br/>Invariant twins [Sylvester (1814-1897), Cayley (1821-1895)] --<br/>Master and pupil [Weierstrass (1815-1897), Sonja Kowalewski (1850-1891)] --<br/>Complete independence [Boole (1815-1864)] --<br/>The Man, not the method [Hermite (1822-1901)] --<br/>The doubter [Kronecker (1823-1891)] --<br/>Anima candida [Riemann (1826-1866)] --<br/>Arithmetic the second [Kummer (1810-1893)] --<br/>The last universalist [Poincare (1854-1912)] --<br/>Paradise lost? [Cantor (1845-1918)]. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | This volume looks at the lives and contribution of 35 pioneers of modern mathematics, from Zeno to Poincaré. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Mathematicians. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Mathematics |
| General subdivision | History. |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Mathematicians -- Biographies. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | AIT-BE Special Collections |
| Edition | 23rd ed. |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Date last checked out | Cost, replacement price | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | Acharya Institute of Technology | Acharya Institute of Technology | 23/01/2019 | 24 | 449.25 | 2 | 510.922BEL | 31352 | 08/06/2020 | 05/03/2020 | 599.00 | 23/01/2019 | AIT-BE Special Collections |