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020 _a0671628186 (pbk.) :
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_bBEL-M 1986 6856
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 _a1. INTRODUCTION 2. MODERN MINDS IN ANCIENT BODIES 3. GENTLEMAN, SOLDIER, AND MATHEMATICIAN 4. THE PRINCE OF AMATEURS 5. GREATNESS AND MISERY OF MAN 6. ON THE SEASHORE 7. MASTER OF ALL TRADES 8. NATURE OR NURTURE? 9. ANALYSIS INCARNATE 10. A LOFTY PYRAMID 11. FROM PEASANT TO SNOB 12. FRIENDS OF AN EMPEROR 13. THE OF GLORY 14. THE PRINCE MATHEMATICIANS 15. MATHEMATICS AND WINDMILLS 16. THE COPERNICUS OF GEOMETRY 17. GENIUS AND POVERTY 18. THE GREAT ALLEGORIST 19. AN IRISH TRAGEDY 20. GENIUS AND STUPIDITY 21. INVARIANT TWINS 22. MASTER AND PUPIL 23. COMPLETE INDEPENDENCE 24. THE MAN, NOT THE METHOD 25. THE DOUBTER 26. ANIMA CANDIDA 27. ARITHMETIC THE SECOND 28. THE LAST UNIVERSALIST 29. PARADISE LOST?
650 0 _aMathematicians.
650 0 _aMathematics
_xHistory.
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_cBK
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