Men of mathematics / by E.T. Bell. [print]

By:

Bell, Eric Temple, 1883-1960 [Author]

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text

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unmediated

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volume

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9780671628185

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QA28
QA28.B433.M466 1986

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Modern minds in ancient bodies -- Gentleman, soldier, and mathematician -- The prince of amateurs -- "Greatness and misery of man" -- On the seashore -- Master of all trades -- Nature or nurture? -- Analysis incarnate -- A lofty pyramid -- From peasant to snob -- Friends of an emperor -- The day of glory -- The prince of mathematicians -- Mathematics and windmills -- The Copernicus of geometry -- Genius and poverty -- The great algorist -- An Irish tragedy -- Genius and stupidity -- Invariant twins -- Master and pupil -- Complete independence -- The man, not the method -- The doubter -- Anima candida -- Arithmetic the second -- The last universalist -- Paradise lost?

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

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Introduction -- Modern minds in ancient bodies -- Gentleman, soldier, and mathematician -- The prince of amateurs -- "Greatness and misery of man" -- On the seashore -- Master of all trades -- Nature or nurture? -- Analysis incarnate -- A lofty pyramid -- From peasant to snob -- Friends of an emperor -- The day of glory -- The prince of mathematicians -- Mathematics and windmills -- The Copernicus of geometry -- Genius and poverty -- The great algorist -- An Irish tragedy -- Genius and stupidity -- Invariant twins -- Master and pupil -- Complete independence -- The man, not the method -- The doubter -- Anima candida -- Arithmetic the second -- The last universalist -- Paradise lost?

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

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