God created the integers : the mathematical breakthroughs that changed history / edited, with commentary, by Stephen Hawking.

By: Hawking, StephenContributor(s): Hawking, Stephen, 1942-2018Material type: TextTextPublication details: Philadelphia : Running Press, c2007Description: xv, 1358 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 9780762430048 (pbk); 0762430044Subject(s): Mathematics -- HistoryDDC classification: 510
Contents:
Euclid (c.325 BC-265 BC) -- Archimedes (287 BC-212 BC) -- Diophantus (third century AD) -- René Descartes (1596-1650) -- Isaac Newton (1642-1727) -- Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) -- Pierre Simon de Laplace (1749-1827) -- Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) -- Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) -- Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789-1857) -- Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789-1857) -- János Bolyai (1802-1860) -- Évariste Galois (1811-1832) -- George Boole (1815-1864) -- George Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) -- Karl Weierstrass (1815-1897) -- Richard Julius Wilhelm Dedekind (1831-1916) -- Georg Cantor (1845-1918) -- Henri Lebesgue (1875-1941) -- Kurt Gödel (1906-1978) -- Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954).
Summary: Bestselling author and physicist Hawking explores the "masterpieces" of mathematics, 25 landmarks spanning 2,500 years and representing the work of 15 mathematicians, including Augustin Cauchy, Bernard Riemann, and Alan Turing.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Euclid (c.325 BC-265 BC) -- Archimedes (287 BC-212 BC) -- Diophantus (third century AD) -- René Descartes (1596-1650) -- Isaac Newton (1642-1727) -- Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) -- Pierre Simon de Laplace (1749-1827) -- Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) -- Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) -- Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789-1857) -- Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789-1857) -- János Bolyai (1802-1860) -- Évariste Galois (1811-1832) -- George Boole (1815-1864) -- George Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) -- Karl Weierstrass (1815-1897) -- Richard Julius Wilhelm Dedekind (1831-1916) -- Georg Cantor (1845-1918) -- Henri Lebesgue (1875-1941) -- Kurt Gödel (1906-1978) -- Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954).

Bestselling author and physicist Hawking explores the "masterpieces" of mathematics, 25 landmarks spanning 2,500 years and representing the work of 15 mathematicians, including Augustin Cauchy, Bernard Riemann, and Alan Turing.

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