Verwandte Artikel zu Of Men and Numbers: The Story of the Great Mathematicians...

Of Men and Numbers: The Story of the Great Mathematicians (Dover Books on Mathematics) - Softcover

Muir, Jane

 
9780486289731: Of Men and Numbers: The Story of the Great Mathematicians (Dover Books on Mathematics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0486289737 ISBN 13: 9780486289731
Verlag: DOVER PUBN INC, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

While mathematics itself may be a formidable subject for many, the lives and accomplishments of history's greatest mathematicians — from Pythagoras to Cantor — offer fascinating reading.
In this delightful and informative recounting, for example, we learn how Pascal's life was abruptly changed by a family of fanatical bonesetters, how Descartes was influenced by three dreams, and how the scholarly Swiss Leonhard Euler (whose famous conjecture was finally disproved in 1959, after 177 years) almost ended up in the Russian navy.
Here, too, are Cardano, the gambler who becomes the 16th century's most fashionable doctor; Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, often considered the three greatest mathematicians of all times; Lobatchevsky, the inventor of non-Euclidean geometry; and the tragic Galois, a founder of modern higher algebra.
In addition to a wealth of interesting and informative anecdotes, presented in a delightfully conversational style, the author offers lucid, accessible explanations of these thinkers' invaluable contributions to the edifice of modern mathematical thought and to man's understanding of himself and his universe.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Verlag
DOVER PUBN INC
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0486289737
ISBN 13 
9780486289731
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
256
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Dover
info@galileo-mc.de

Dachauer Str. 5-7
F�rstenfeldbruck
82256
Deutschland