Great mathematicians
By: Raymond Flood and Robin Wilson
Contributors: Wilson, Robin J.
Series: Great people in history
Publisher: Rosen Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9781477704028
Subjects: Mathematics; Mathematicians; Juvenile literature; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 125) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Egyptians; title: The Mesopotamians; title: Thales; title: Pythagoras; title: Plato and Aristotle; title: Euclid Archimedes; title: Apollonius; title: Hipparchus and Ptolemy; title: The Chinese; title: The Indians; title: The Mayans; title: Al-Khwarizmi; title: Leonardo Fibonacci; title: Robert Recorde; title: Cardano and Tartaglia; title: Rafael Bombelli; title: Copernicus & Galileo; title: Johannes Kepeler; title: Napier and Briggs; title: Pierre De Fermat; title: Renø Descartes; title: Blaise Pascal; title: Cavalieri and Roberval; title: Christiaan Huygens; title: Isaac Newton; title: Gottfried Leibniz; title: Jacob Bernoulli; title: Johann Bernoulli; title: Jean Le Rond D'Alembert; title: Leonhard Euler; title: Joseph-louis Lagrange; title: Pierre-simon Laplace; title: Carl Friedrich Gauss; title: Augustin-louis Cauchy; title: Fourier and Poisson; title: Abel and Galois; title: Bolyai and Lobachevsky; title: Babbage and Lovelace; title: Florence Nightingale; title: Bernhard Riemann; title: Georg Cantor; title: Felix Klein; title: David Hilbert; title: Henri Poincare; title: Russell and Goedel; title: Einstein and Minkowski; title: Emmy Noether; title: John von Neumann; title: Alan Turing; title: Benoit Mandelbrot; title: Andrew Wiles; title: Grigori Perelmann.