God created the integers:the mathematical breakthroughs that changed history
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Group Author: | ; |
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Running Press,
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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). |