An edition of Men of mathematics
(1900)
Men of mathematics
1st Touchstone ed.
by Eric Temple Bell
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A collection of biographies describing the lives and achievements of 29 mathematicians. Includes Zeno, Descartes, Fermat, Pascal, Newton, and Leibniz.
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Table of Contents
Modern minds in ancient bodies
Gentleman, soldier, and mathematician
The prince of amateurs
"Greatness and misery of man"
On the seashore
Master of all trades
Nature or nurture?
Analysis incarnate
A lofty pyramid
From peasant to snob
Friends of an emperor
The day of glory
The prince of mathematicians
Mathematics and windmills
The Copernicus of geometry
Genius and poverty
The great algorist
An Irish tragedy
Genius and stupidity
Invariant twins
Master and pupil
Complete independence
The man, not the method
The doubter
Anima candida
Arithmetic the second
The last universalist
Paradise lost?
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