Remarkable mathematicians
Subtitle: from Euler to von Neumann
By: Ioan James.
Series: Spectrum series / the Mathematical Association of America; MAA spectrum
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge, U.K; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 433
Subjects: Mathematicians -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-428).
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Prologue; title: From Euler to Legendre; title: From Fourier to Cauchy; title: From Abel to Grassmann; title: From Kummer to Cayley; title: From Hermite to Sophus Lie; title: From Cantor to Hilbert; title: From E.H. Moore to Takagi; title: From Hardy to Lefschetz; title: From Birkhoff to Alexander; title: From Banach to von Neumann; title: Epilogue; title: Further reading; title: Collections; title: Acknowledgements.