Journey through genius
Subtitle: the great theorems of mathematics
By: William Dunham.
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780140147391
Subjects: Mathematics -- History.; Mathematicians -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-293).
Table of contents: title: 1. Hippocrates' quadrature of the Lune (ca. 440 B.C.); title: 2. Euclid's proof of the Pythagorean Theorem (ca. 300 B.C.); title: 3. Euclid and the infinitude of primes (ca. 300 B.C.); title: 4. Archimedes' determination of circular area (ca. 225 B.C.); title: 5. Heron's formula for triangular area (ca. A.D. 75); title: 6. Cardano and the solution of the cubic (1545); title: 7. A gem from Isaac Newton (late 1660s); title: 8. The Bernoullis and the Harmonic series (1689); title: 9. The extraordinary sums of Leonhard Euler (1734); title: 10. A sampler of Euler's number theory (1736); title: 11. The non-denumerability of the continuum (1874); title: 12. Cantor and the transfinite realm (1891).