02401nam a22002657a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802800320007608200140010810000220012224500450014426000450018930000690023436500130030350513910031652001550170765000160186265000120187865000240189065000260191470000210194094200090196199900170197095201480198720221003152743.0221003b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9781416597612  aDonated by Prof. J P Gupta.  a925.1 BEL  aEric Temple Bell.  aMen of mathematics.c/ Eric Temple Bell.  a, New Yorkb:Simon and Schusterc, 1937.  a xxi, 592 pages b: frontispiece, portraits, diagrams c; 25 cm.  bDonated.  aIntroduction
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)  aA collection of biographies describing the lives and achievements of 29 mathematicians. Includes Zeno, Descartes, Fermat, Pascal, Newton, and Leibniz.  aBiographies  aHistory  aMathematics History  aScientists Biography.  aEric Temple Bell  cBOOK  c59651d59651  00102ddc4070aSNULbSNULd2022-10-03eDonated by Prof. J P Gupta.l2m1o925.1 BELpG2974r2024-02-05 00:00:00s2024-01-21w2022-10-03yBOOK