Men of mathematics. (Record no. 59651)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781416597612
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name Donated by Prof. J P Gupta.
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Classification number 925.1 BEL
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Personal name Eric Temple Bell.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Men of mathematics.
Statement of responsibility, etc / Eric Temple Bell.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc , New York
Name of publisher, distributor, etc :Simon and Schuster
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 1937.
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Extent xxi, 592 pages
Other physical details : frontispiece, portraits, diagrams
Dimensions ; 25 cm.
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Price amount Donated.
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Contents note Introduction<br/>Modern minds in ancient bodies: Zeno (fifth century B.C.), Eudoxus (408-355 B.C.), Archimedes (287?-212 B.C.)<br/>Gentleman, soldier, and mathematician: Descartes (1596-1650)<br/>The prince of amateurs: Fermat (1601-1665)<br/>“Greatness and misery of man”: Pascal (1623-1662)<br/>On the seashore: Newton (1642-1727)<br/>Master of all trades: Leibniz (1646-1716)<br/>Nature or nurture?: the Bernoullis (seventeenth and eighteenth centuries)<br/>Analysis incarnate: Euler (1707-1783)<br/>A lofty pyramid: Lagrange (1736-1813)<br/>From peasant to snob: Laplace (1749-1827)<br/>Friends of an emperor: Monge (1746-1818), Fourier (1768-1830)<br/>The day of glory: Poncelet (1788-1867)<br/>The prince of mathematicians: Gauss (1777-1855)<br/>Mathematics and windmills: Cauchy (1789-1857)<br/>The Copernicus of geometry: Lobatchewsky (1793-1856)<br/>Genius and poverty: Abel (1802-1829)<br/>The great algorist: Jacobi (1804-1851)<br/>An Irish tragedy: Hamilton (1805-1865)<br/>Genius and stupidity: Galois (1811-1832)<br/>Invariant twins: Sylvester (1814-1897); Cayley (1821-1895)<br/>Master and pupil: Weierstrass (1815-1897); Sonja Kowalewski (1850-1891)<br/>Complete independence: Boole (1815-1864)<br/>The man, not the method: Hermite (1822-1901)<br/>The doubter: Kronecker (1823-1891)<br/>Anima candida: Riemann (1826-1866)<br/>Arithmetic the second: Kummer (1810-1893), Dedekind (1831-1916)<br/>The last universalist: Poincaré (1854-1912)<br/>Paradise lost?: Cantor (1845-1918)
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc A collection of biographies describing the lives and achievements of 29 mathematicians. Includes Zeno, Descartes, Fermat, Pascal, Newton, and Leibniz.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Biographies
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element History
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Mathematics History
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Scientists Biography.
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Eric Temple Bell
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 03/10/2022 Donated by Prof. J P Gupta. 2 1 925.1 BEL G2974 05/02/2024 21/01/2024 03/10/2022 Books
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