Makers of mathematics
Hollingdale, Stuart
Makers of mathematics by Stuart Hollingdale. - London : Penguin, ©1989. - xvi, 439 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chapter 1 The beginnings Chapter 2 Early Greek mathematics Chapter 3 Euclid and Apollonius Chapter 4 Archimedes and the later Hellenistic period Chapter 5 The long interlude Chapter 6 The Renaissance Chapter 7 Descartes, Fermat and Pascal Chapter 8 Newton Chapter 9 Newton's Principia Chapter 10 Newton's circle Chapter 11 Leibniz Chapter 12 Euler Chapter 13 D'Alembert and his contemporaries Chapter 14 Gauss Chapter 15 Hamilton and Boole Chapter 16 Dedekind and Cantor Chapter 17 Einstein
0140227326
90119332
Mathematics--History.
Mathematicians--Biography.
QA21 / .H74 1989
510.92 / HOL-M
Makers of mathematics by Stuart Hollingdale. - London : Penguin, ©1989. - xvi, 439 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chapter 1 The beginnings Chapter 2 Early Greek mathematics Chapter 3 Euclid and Apollonius Chapter 4 Archimedes and the later Hellenistic period Chapter 5 The long interlude Chapter 6 The Renaissance Chapter 7 Descartes, Fermat and Pascal Chapter 8 Newton Chapter 9 Newton's Principia Chapter 10 Newton's circle Chapter 11 Leibniz Chapter 12 Euler Chapter 13 D'Alembert and his contemporaries Chapter 14 Gauss Chapter 15 Hamilton and Boole Chapter 16 Dedekind and Cantor Chapter 17 Einstein
0140227326
90119332
Mathematics--History.
Mathematicians--Biography.
QA21 / .H74 1989
510.92 / HOL-M