Men of mathematics (Record no. 60014)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780671628185
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Distributor Name : Mathematical Department Library
Distributor address :SNIOE
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Classification number 925.1 BEL
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Personal name Bell, E T.
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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 & Schuster
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 1986.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xvii, 590 pages
Dimensions ; 22 cm.
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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 [Decartes (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 [Lagranade (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<br/>1851)]<br/>An Irish tragedy [Hamilton (1805<br/>1865)]<br/>Genius and stupidity [Galois (1811<br/>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)]<br/>The last universalist [Poincare (1854-1912)]<br/>Paradise lost? [Cantor (1845-1918)]
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Summary, etc This volume looks at the lives and contribution of 35 pioneers of modern mathematics, from Zeno to Poincaré
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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 Mathematicians Biography
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Biografie
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Personal name Eric Temple Bell
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Koha item type Mathematics Departmental Library
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 03/03/2023 : Mathematical Department Library   925.1 BEL M410 03/03/2023 03/03/2023 Mathematics Departmental Library
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