Which mathematician elaborated a crucial concept the night before he died in a duel? Who funded his maths and medical career through gambling and chess? Who learned maths from her wallpaper?
Ian Stewart presents the extraordinary lives and amazing discoveries of twenty-five of history's greatest mathematicians from Archimedes and Liu Hui to Benoit Mandelbrot and William Thurston. His subjects are the inspiring individuals from all over the world who have made crucial contributions to mathematics. They include the rediscovered geniuses Srinivasa Ramanujan and Emmy Noether, alongside the towering figures of Muhammad al-Khwarizmi (inventor of the algorithm), Pierre de Fermat, Isaac Newton, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, Bernhard Reimann (precursor to Einstein), Henri Poincaré, Ada Lovelace (arguably the first computer programmer), Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing.
Ian Stewart's vivid accounts are fascinating in themselves and, taken together, cohere into a riveting history of key steps in the development of mathematics.
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Sciences biologiquesSubtopic
Mathématiques généralesTable of contents
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Dedication
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Do Not Disturb My Circles
- Chapter 2: Master of the Way
- Chapter 3: Dixit Algorismi
- Chapter 4: Innovator of the Infinite
- Chapter 5: The Gambling Astrologer
- Chapter 6: The Last Theorem
- Chapter 7: System of the World
- Chapter 8: Master of Us All
- Chapter 9: The Heat Operator
- Chapter 10: Invisible Scaffolding
- Chapter 11: Bending the Rules
- Chapter 12: Radicals and Revolutionaries
- Chapter 13: Enchantress of Number
- Chapter 14: The Laws of Thought
- Chapter 15: Musician of the Primes
- Chapter 16: Cardinal of the Continuum
- Chapter 17: The First Great Lady
- Chapter 18: Ideas Rose in Crowds
- Chapter 19: We Must Know, We Shall Know
- Chapter 20: Overthrowing Academic Order
- Chapter 21: The Formula Man
- Chapter 22: Incomplete and Undecidable
- Chapter 23: The Machine Stops
- Chapter 24: Father of Fractals
- Chapter 25: Outside In
- Mathematical People
- Notes
- Further Reading
- Index
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