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082	0	0	_a510.922 _a925.1 _223rd ed. _bBEL
100	1		_aBell, Eric Temple, _d1883-1960.
245	1	0	_aMen of mathematics / _cby E.T. Bell.
260			_aNew York : _bSimon & Schuster, _c1986, c1937.
300			_axvii, 590 p. ; _c22 cm.
490	0		_aA Touchstone book
500			_aIncludes index.
505	0		_aIntroduction -- 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)].
520			_aThis volume looks at the lives and contribution of 35 pioneers of modern mathematics, from Zeno to Poincaré.
650		0	_aMathematicians.
650		0	_aMathematics _xHistory.
653			_aMathematicians -- Biographies.
942			_2ddc _cSPL _e23rd ed.