Significant Figures (Paperback)

Lives and Works of Trailblazing Mathematicians
ISBN/EAN: 9781781254301
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 305 S.
Einband: Paperback
Which mathematician elaborated a crucial concept the night before he died in a duel? Who funded his maths and medical career through gambling and chess? Who learned maths from her wallpaper? Ian Stewart presents the extraordinary lives and amazing discoveries of twenty-five of history's greatest mathematicians from Archimedes and Liu Hui to Benoit Mandelbrot and William Thurston. The lives and works of famous mathematicians.