Stephen Hawking

God created the integers : the mathematical breakthroughs that changed history - London : Penguin, 2006. - xiii, 1160 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm

Life and work of: Euclid --
Archimedes --
Diophantus --
René Descartes --
. Isaac Newton --
Pierre Simon de Laplace --
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier --
Carl Friedrich Gauss --
Augustin-Louis Cauchy --
George Boole --
georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann --
Karl Weierstrass --
Richard Julius Wilhelm Dedekind --
Georg Cantor --
Henri Lebesgue --
Kurt Gödel --
Alan Mathison Turing

God Created the Integers' is Stephen Hawking's personal choice of the greatest mathematical works in history. He provides us with exerpts from original mathematical proofs and results and helps us understand the progression of mathematical thought, and the very foundations of our present day technologies.

9780141018782

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