God created the integers:the mathematical breakthroughs that changed history

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Hawking S. W.; (Stephen W.)
Published: Running Press,
Publisher Address: Philadelphia, Pa.
Publication Dates: c2005.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Carrier Form: xiii, 1160 p.: ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0762419229 (hbk.)
9780762419227 (hbk.)
Index Number: O11
CLC: O11
Call Number: O11/G577
Contents: Euclid (c.325 BC-265 BC) -- Archimedes (287 BC-212 BC) -- Diophantus (third century AD) -- René Descartes (1596-1650) -- Isaac Newton (1642-1727) -- Pierre Simon de Laplace (1749-1827) -- Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) -- Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) -- Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789-1857) -- George Boole (1815-1864) -- George Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) -- Karl Weierstrass (1815-1897) -- Richard Julius Wilhelm Dedekind (1831-1916) -- Georg Cantor (1845-1918) -- Henri Lebesgue (1875-1941) -- Kurt Gödel (1906-1978) -- Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954).