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God created the integers :

God created the integers : the mathematical breakthroughs that changed history / edited, with commentary, by Stephen Hawking. - New ed. - London. : Penguin Books., c2005. - xiii, 1160 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Euclid (c.325 BC-265 BC) -- Archimedes (287 BC-212 BC) -- Diophantus (third century AD) -- Ren�e Descartes (1596-1650) -- Isaac Newton (1642-1727) -- Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) -- Pierre Simon de Laplace (1749-1827) -- Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) -- Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) -- Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789-1857) -- Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789-1857) -- J�anos Bolyai (1802-1860) -- �Evariste Galois (1811-1832) -- 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 G�odel (1906-1978) -- Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954).

Bestselling author and physicist Hawking explores the "masterpieces" of mathematics, 25 landmarks spanning 2,500 years and representing the work of 15 mathematicians, including Augustin Cauchy, Bernard Riemann, and Alan Turing.

9780141018782


Mathematics--History.
Mathematicians--Biography.

510 / HAG