Men of mathematics
By: by E.T. Bell
Edition: 1st Touchstone ed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 590
ISBN-13: 9781416597612
Copyright date: 1937
Subjects: Mathematicians; Mathematics; History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Modern minds in ancient bodies; title: Gentleman, soldier, and mathematician; title: The prince of amateurs; title: "Greatness and misery of man"; title: On the seashore; title: Master of all trades; title: Nature or nurture?; title: Analysis incarnate; title: A lofty pyramid; title: From peasant to snob; title: Friends of an emperor; title: The day of glory; title: The prince of mathematicians; title: Mathematics and windmills; title: The Copernicus of geometry; title: Genius and poverty; title: The great algorist; title: An Irish tragedy; title: Genius and stupidity; title: Invariant twins; title: Master and pupil; title: Complete independence; title: The man, not the method; title: The doubter; title: Anima candida; title: Arithmetic the second; title: The last universalist; title: Paradise lost?