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100 1 $aBell, Eric Temple,$d1883-1960.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50006509
245 10 $aMen of mathematics /$cby E.T. Bell.
260 $aNew York :$bSimon and Schuster,$c1937.
300 $axxi, 592 pages :$bfrontispiece, portraits, diagrams ;$c25 cm
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500 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $a1. Introduction -- 2. Modern minds in ancient bodies: Zeno (fifth century B.C.), Eudoxus (408-355 B.C.), Archimedes (287?-212 B.C.) -- 3. Gentleman, soldier, and mathematician: Descartes (1596-1650) -- 4. The prince of amateurs: Fermat (1601-1665) -- 5. "Greatness and misery of man": Pascal (1623-1662) -- 6. On the seashore: Newton (1642-1727) -- 7. Master of all trades: Leibniz (1646-1716) -- 8. Nature or nurture?: the Bernoullis (seventeenth and eighteenth centuries)] -- 9. Analysis incarnate: Euler (1707-1783) -- 10. A Lofty pyramid: Lagrange (1736-1813) -- 11. From peasant to snob: Laplace (1749-1827) -- 12. Friends of an emperor: Monge (1746-1818), Fourier (1768-1830) -- 13. The day of glory: Poncelet (1788-1867) -- 14. The prince of mathematicians: Gauss (1777-1855) -- 15. Mathematics and windmills: Cauchy (1789-1857) -- 16. The Copernicus of geometry: Lobatchewsky (1793-1856) -- 17. Genius and poverty: Abel (1802-1829) -- 18. The great algorist: Jacobi (1804-1851) -- 19. An Irish tragedy: Hamilton (1805-1865) -- 20. Genius and stupidity: Galois (1811-1832) -- 21. Invariant twins Sylvester (1814-1897), Cayley (1821-1895) -- 22. Master and pupil: Weierstrass (1815-1897), Sonja Kowalewski (1850-1891) -- 23. Complete independence: Boole (1815-1864) -- 24. The man, not the method: Hermite (1822-1901) -- 25. The doubter: Kronecker (1823-1891) -- 26. Anima candida: Riemann (1826-1866) -- 27. Arithmetic the second: Kummer (1810-1893), Dedekind (1831-1916) -- 28. The last universalist: Poincaré (1854-1912) -- 29. Paradise lost?: Cantor (1845-1918).
520 $aA collection of biographies describing the lives and achievements of 29 mathematicians. Includes Zeno, Descartes, Fermat, Pascal, Newton, and Leibniz.
500 $aRare Book copy (AIGA): In original dust jacket.$5NNC
650 0 $aMathematicians$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107557
650 0 $aMathematics$xHistory.
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655 7 $aBiographies.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01423686
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752 $aUnited States$bNew York (State).$2naf
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