Men of mathematics / by E.T. Bell.

By:

Bell, Eric Temple, 1883-1960

Material type: Text

TextSeries: A Touchstone bookPublication details: New York : Simon & Schuster, 1986, c1937.Description: xvii, 590 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

9780671628185

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

510.922 925.1 23rd ed. BEL

Contents:

Introduction -- Modern minds in ancient bodies [Zeno (fifth century B.C.), Eudoxus (408-355 B.C., Archimedes (287?-212 B.C.)] -- Gentleman, soldier, and mathematician [Decartes (1596-1650)] -- The prince of amateurs [Fermat (1601-1665)]-- "Greatness and misery of man" [Pascal (1623-1662)] -- On the seashore [Newton (1642-1727)] -- Master of all trades [Leibniz (1646-1716)] -- Nature or nurture? [The Bernoullis (seventeenth and eighteenth centuries)] -- Analysis incarnate [Euler (1707-1783)] -- A Lofty pyramid [Lagranade (1736-1813)] -- From peasant to snob [LaPlace (1749-1827)] -- Friends of an emperor [Monge (1746-1818), Fourier (1768-1830)] -- The day of glory [Poncelet (1788-1867)] -- The prince of mathematicians [Gauss (1777-1855)] -- Mathematics and Windmills [Cauchy (1789-1857)] -- The Copernicus of geometry [Lobatchewsky (1793-1856)] -- Genius and poverty [Abel (1802-1829)] -- The great algorist [Jacobi (1804 -- 1851)] -- An Irish tragedy [Hamilton (1805 -- 1865)] -- Genius and stupidity [Galois (1811 -- 1832)] -- Invariant twins [Sylvester (1814-1897), Cayley (1821-1895)] -- Master and pupil [Weierstrass (1815-1897), Sonja Kowalewski (1850-1891)] -- Complete independence [Boole (1815-1864)] -- The Man, not the method [Hermite (1822-1901)] -- The doubter [Kronecker (1823-1891)] -- Anima candida [Riemann (1826-1866)] -- Arithmetic the second [Kummer (1810-1893)] -- The last universalist [Poincare (1854-1912)] -- Paradise lost? [Cantor (1845-1918)].

Summary: This volume looks at the lives and contribution of 35 pioneers of modern mathematics, from Zeno to Poincaré.

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Includes index.

Introduction --
Modern minds in ancient bodies [Zeno (fifth century B.C.), Eudoxus (408-355 B.C., Archimedes (287?-212 B.C.)] --
Gentleman, soldier, and mathematician [Decartes (1596-1650)] --
The prince of amateurs [Fermat (1601-1665)]--
"Greatness and misery of man" [Pascal (1623-1662)] --
On the seashore [Newton (1642-1727)] --
Master of all trades [Leibniz (1646-1716)] --
Nature or nurture? [The Bernoullis (seventeenth and eighteenth centuries)] --
Analysis incarnate [Euler (1707-1783)] --
A Lofty pyramid [Lagranade (1736-1813)] --
From peasant to snob [LaPlace (1749-1827)] --
Friends of an emperor [Monge (1746-1818), Fourier (1768-1830)] --
The day of glory [Poncelet (1788-1867)] --
The prince of mathematicians [Gauss (1777-1855)] --
Mathematics and Windmills [Cauchy (1789-1857)] --
The Copernicus of geometry [Lobatchewsky (1793-1856)] --
Genius and poverty [Abel (1802-1829)] --
The great algorist [Jacobi (1804 --
1851)] --
An Irish tragedy [Hamilton (1805 --
1865)] --
Genius and stupidity [Galois (1811 --
1832)] --
Invariant twins [Sylvester (1814-1897), Cayley (1821-1895)] --
Master and pupil [Weierstrass (1815-1897), Sonja Kowalewski (1850-1891)] --
Complete independence [Boole (1815-1864)] --
The Man, not the method [Hermite (1822-1901)] --
The doubter [Kronecker (1823-1891)] --
Anima candida [Riemann (1826-1866)] --
Arithmetic the second [Kummer (1810-1893)] --
The last universalist [Poincare (1854-1912)] --
Paradise lost? [Cantor (1845-1918)].

This volume looks at the lives and contribution of 35 pioneers of modern mathematics, from Zeno to Poincaré.

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