02268nam a22002537a 4500 20221003152743.0 221003b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781416597612 Donated by Prof. J P Gupta. 925.1 BEL Eric Temple Bell. Men of mathematics. / Eric Temple Bell. , New York :Simon and Schuster , 1937. xxi, 592 pages : frontispiece, portraits, diagrams ; 25 cm. Donated. 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: Descartes (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: Lagrange (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), Dedekind (1831-1916) The last universalist: Poincaré (1854-1912) Paradise lost?: Cantor (1845-1918) A collection of biographies describing the lives and achievements of 29 mathematicians. Includes Zeno, Descartes, Fermat, Pascal, Newton, and Leibniz. Biographies History Mathematics History Scientists Biography. Eric Temple Bell BOOK 59651 59651 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2022-10-03 Donated by Prof. J P Gupta. 2 1 925.1 BEL G2974 2024-02-05 00:00:00 2024-01-21 2022-10-03 BOOK