| Edition |
New ed. |
| Description |
xv, 1358 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Summary |
Bestselling author and physicist Hawking explores the "masterpieces" of mathematics, 25 landmarks spanning 2,500 years and representing the work of 15 mathematicians, including Augustin Cauchy, Bernard Riemann, and Alan Turing. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Euclid (c.325 BC-265 BC) -- Archimedes (287 BC-212 BC) -- Diophantus (third century AD) -- René Descartes (1596-1650) -- Isaac Newton (1642-1727) -- Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) -- Pierre Simon de Laplace (1749-1827) -- Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) -- Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) -- Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789-1857) -- Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789-1857) -- János Bolyai (1802-1860) -- Évariste Galois (1811-1832) -- George Boole (1815-1864) -- George Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) -- Karl Weierstrass (1815-1897) -- Richard Julius Wilhelm Dedekind (1831-1916) -- Georg Cantor (1845-1918) -- Henri Lebesgue (1875-1941) -- Kurt Gödel (1906-1978) -- Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954). |
| Subject |
Mathematics -- History.
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Mathematicians -- Biography.
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Mathematik.
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Quelle.
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Mathematiker.
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Mathematikgeschichte <Fach>
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Mathematicians. (OCoLC)fst01012154
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Mathematics. (OCoLC)fst01012163
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| Indexed Term |
Geschichte 300 v. Chr.-1936 |
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Mathematicians Biography |
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Mathematics History |
| Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Hawking, Stephen, 1942-2018
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| ISBN |
9780762430048 |
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0762430044 |
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