Introduction
Modern minds in ancient bodies [Zeno (fifth century B.C.), Eudoxus (408-355 B.C., Archimedes (287?-212 B.C.)]
Gentleman, soldier, and mathematician [Decartes (1596-1650)]
The prince of amateurs [Fermat (1601-1665)]
"Greatness and misery of man" [Pascal (1623-1662)]
On the seashore [Newton (1642-1727)]
Master of all trades [Leibniz (1646-1716)]
Nature or nurture? [The Bernoullis (seventeenth and eighteenth centuries)]
Analysis incarnate [Euler (1707-1783)]
A Lofty pyramid [Lagranade (1736-1813)]
From peasant to snob [LaPlace (1749-1827)]
Friends of an emperor [Monge (1746-1818), Fourier (1768-1830)]
The day of glory [Poncelet (1788-1867)]
The prince of mathematicians [Gauss (1777-1855)]
Mathematics and Windmills [Cauchy (1789-1857)]
The Copernicus of geometry [Lobatchewsky (1793-1856)]
Genius and poverty [Abel (1802-1829)]
The great algorist [Jacobi (1804
1851)]
An Irish tragedy [Hamilton (1805
1865)]
Genius and stupidity [Galois (1811
1832)]
Invariant twins [Sylvester (1814-1897), Cayley (1821-1895)]
Master and pupil [Weierstrass (1815-1897), Sonja Kowalewski (1850-1891)]
Complete independence [Boole (1815-1864)]
The Man, not the method [Hermite (1822-1901)]
The doubter [Kronecker (1823-1891)]
Anima candida [Riemann (1826-1866)]
Arithmetic the second [Kummer (1810-1893)]
The last universalist [Poincare (1854-1912)]
Paradise lost? [Cantor (1845-1918)]

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