The Great Mathematicians - Softcover

Flood, Raymond; Wilson, Robin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1788886941 ISBN 13: 9781788886949

Verlag: Arcturus Publishing Ltd, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

Why did Florence Nightingale introduce pie charts? How did Lewis Carroll regard Pythagoras? Who learned calculus from her nursery wallpaper?

Spanning from the ancient world to the modern age, The Great Mathematicians tells fascinating and unusual tales of the men and women who transformed mathematics. We meet the mathematician who knew eight languages by the time he was 11, the one who was sent to jail for gambling and the one who published a lot yet never existed.

As well as providing rich bibliographic detail, Professors Raymond Flood and Robin Wilson explain various theorems using concise and accessible language. These include the Pythagorean theorem, Gödel''s Incompleteness theorem, Fermat''s Last Theorem and many more. Flood and Wilson are both former presidents of the British Society for the History of Mathematics and are uniquely qualified to lay out this incredible tale.

This entertaining and rigorously accurate book presents mathematics with a human face, celebrating the achievements of the greatest mathematicians across history.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Arcturus Publishing Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1788886941
• ISBN 13: 9781788886949
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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