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Significant Figures: The Lives And Work Of Great Mathematicians

by IAN STEWART

2020-12-29 06:21:00

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A celebrated mathematician traces the history of math through the lives and work of twenty-five pioneering mathematiciansIn Significant Figures, acclaimed mathematician Ian Stewart explores the work of 25 of history''s most important mathematicians, ... Read more
A celebrated mathematician traces the history of math through the lives and work of twenty-five pioneering mathematicians

In Significant Figures, acclaimed mathematician Ian Stewart explores the work of 25 of history''s most important mathematicians, showing how they developed on each other''s work and built the mathematics we use today.

Through these short biographies, we get acquainted with the history of mathematics from Archimedes to William Thurston, and learn about those too often left out of the cannon, such as Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, the creator of algebra; Ada Lovelace, the world''s first computer programmer; and Emmy Noether, whose research on symmetry paved the way for modern physics.

Tracing the evolution of mathematics over the course of two millennia, Significant Figures will educate and delight aspiring mathematicians and experts alike.

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File size9.75 X 6.5 X 1.25 in
Print pages320
PublisherBasic Books
Publication date September 12, 2017
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780465096121
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Ian Stewart
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Ian Stewart is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Warwick University. He has published more than eighty books including Mathematics of Life , Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities ...

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