Bell, E T. creator Eric Temple Bell text New York : Simon & Schuster , 1986 monographic eng

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xvii, 590 pages ; 22 cm. This volume looks at the lives and contribution of 35 pioneers of modern mathematics, from Zeno to Poincaré 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)] /Eric Temple Bell. Biographies History Mathematicians Biography Biografie 925.1 BEL 9780671628185 : Mathematical Department Library :SNIOE 230303 20230303130401.0