God Created the Integers
Subtitle: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History
Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers; Running Press
Published: October 4, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1160
ISBN-13: 9780762419227
Subjects: History of mathematics; Popular science; Science/Mathematics; Mathematics; History & Philosophy; Logic; Biography; History; Mathematicians
First sentence: With the possible exception of Isaac Newton, Euclid is the best known mathematician of all time.
Description: Includes works by : Euclid, Archimedes, Diophantus, Rene 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 Godel, Alan Mathison Turing.