Eric Temple Bell. creator Eric Temple Bell text New York :Simon and Schuster , 1937 monographic eng

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xxi, 592 pages : frontispiece, portraits, diagrams ; 25 cm. A collection of biographies describing the lives and achievements of 29 mathematicians. Includes Zeno, Descartes, Fermat, Pascal, Newton, and Leibniz. 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) / Eric Temple Bell. Biographies History Mathematics History Scientists Biography 925.1 BEL 9781416597612 Donated by Prof. J P Gupta. 221003 20221003152743.0