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Remarkable Mathematicians
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Author : Ioan James
language : en
Publisher: Mathematical Association of America
Release Date : 2003-02-06
Remarkable Mathematicians written by Ioan James and has been published by Mathematical Association of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-02-06 with Mathematics categories.
Ioan James introduces and profiles sixty mathematicians from the era when mathematics was freed from its classical origins to develop into its modern form. The subjects, all born between 1700 and 1910, come from a wide range of countries, and all made important contributions to mathematics, through their ideas, their teaching, and their influence. James emphasizes their varied life stories, not the details of their mathematical achievements. The book is organized chronologically into ten chapters, each of which contains biographical sketches of six mathematicians. The men and women James has chosen to portray are representative of the history of mathematics, such that their stories, when read in sequence, convey in human terms something of the way in which mathematics developed. Ioan James is a professor at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford. He is the author of Topological Topics (Cambridge, 1983), Fibrewise Topology (Cambridge, 1989), Introduction to Uniform Spaces (Cambridge, 1990), Topological and Uniform Spaces (Springer-Verlag New York, 1999), and co-author with Michael C. Crabb of Fibrewise Homotopy Theory (Springer-Verlag New York, 1998). James is the former editor of the London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series and volume editor of numerous books. He is the organizer of the Oxford Series of Topology symposia and other conferences, and co-chairman of the Task Force for Mathematical Sciences of Campaign for Oxford.
Remarkable Mathematician From Euler To Von Neumann
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Author : JAMES
language : en
Publisher:
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Remarkable Mathematician From Euler To Von Neumann written by JAMES and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Ioan James introduces and profiles sixty mathematicians from an era which saw mathematics freed from its classical origins to develop into its modern form. The characters, all born between 1700 and 1910, come from a wide range of countries, and all made an important contribution to mathematics, through their ideas, their teaching, their influence, and so on. The book is organised chronologically into ten chapters, each of which contains potted life stories of six mathematicians. The players James has chosen to portray are sufficiently representative that their stories, when read in sequence, convey in human terms something of the way in which mathematics developed.
Remarkable Mathematicians
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Author : Ioan Mackenzie James
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Remarkable Mathematicians written by Ioan Mackenzie James and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Mathematicians categories.
Math Makers
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Author : Alfred S. Posamentier
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2020-02-01
Math Makers written by Alfred S. Posamentier and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-01 with Mathematics categories.
An entertaining history of mathematics as chronicled through fifty short biographies. Mathematics today is the fruit of centuries of brilliant insights by men and women whose personalities and life experiences were often as extraordinary as their mathematical achievements. This entertaining history of mathematics chronicles those achievements through fifty short biographies that bring these great thinkers to life while making their contributions understandable to readers with little math background. Among the fascinating characters profiled are Isaac Newton (1642-1727), the founder of classical physics and infinitesimal calculus—he frequently quarreled with fellow scientists and was obsessed by alchemy and arcane Bible interpretation; Sophie Germain (1776 - 1831), who studied secretly at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, using the name of a previously enrolled male student—she is remembered for her work on Fermat's Last Theorem and on elasticity theory; Emmy Noether (1882 - 1935), whom Albert Einstein described as the most important woman in the history of mathematics—she made important contributions to abstract algebra and in physics she clarified the connection between conservation laws and symmetry; and Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920), who came from humble origins in India and had almost no formal training, yet made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions.The unusual behavior and life circumstances of these and many other intriguing personalities make for fascinating reading and a highly enjoyable introduction to mathematics.
Remarkable Engineers
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Author : Ioan James
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-02-25
Remarkable Engineers written by Ioan James and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-25 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Engineering transformed the world completely between the 17th and 21st centuries. Remarkable Engineers tells the stories of 51 of the key pioneers in this transformation, from the designers and builders of the world's railways, bridges and aeroplanes, to the founders of the modern electronics and communications revolutions. The focus throughout is on their varied life stories, and engineering and scientific detail is kept to a minimum. Engineer profiles are organized chronologically, inviting readers with an interest in engineering to follow the path by which these remarkable engineers utterly changed our lives.
The Life And Times Of The World S Most Famous Mathematicians
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Author : Ann Varela
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
The Life And Times Of The World S Most Famous Mathematicians written by Ann Varela and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Mathematicians categories.
Arithmetic, math, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus and statistics are all part of the modern world, yet so few of us know where these fields of study originated. In this book, the lives and discoveries of various mathematicians will be explored and examined, so as to provide some insight into various mathematical functions and operations.
Leonhard Euler And The Bernoullis
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Author : M. B. W. Tent
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2009-09-18
Leonhard Euler And The Bernoullis written by M. B. W. Tent and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-18 with Mathematics categories.
"Leonhard Euler and the Bernoullis is a fascinating tale of the Bernoulli family and Euler's association with them. Successful merchants in the 16th and 17th centuries, the Bernoullis were driven out of Antwerp during the persecution of the Huguenots and settled first in Frankfurt, and then in Basel, where one of the most remarkable mathematical dy
Gamma
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Author : Julian Havil
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2010-01-04
Gamma written by Julian Havil and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-04 with Mathematics categories.
Among the many constants that appear in mathematics, π, e, and i are the most familiar. Following closely behind is y, or gamma, a constant that arises in many mathematical areas yet maintains a profound sense of mystery. In a tantalizing blend of history and mathematics, Julian Havil takes the reader on a journey through logarithms and the harmonic series, the two defining elements of gamma, toward the first account of gamma's place in mathematics. Introduced by the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707-1783), who figures prominently in this book, gamma is defined as the limit of the sum of 1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + . . . Up to 1/n, minus the natural logarithm of n--the numerical value being 0.5772156. . . . But unlike its more celebrated colleagues π and e, the exact nature of gamma remains a mystery--we don't even know if gamma can be expressed as a fraction. Among the numerous topics that arise during this historical odyssey into fundamental mathematical ideas are the Prime Number Theorem and the most important open problem in mathematics today--the Riemann Hypothesis (though no proof of either is offered!). Sure to be popular with not only students and instructors but all math aficionados, Gamma takes us through countries, centuries, lives, and works, unfolding along the way the stories of some remarkable mathematics from some remarkable mathematicians.
Notable Mathematicians
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Author : Robyn V. Young
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Notable Mathematicians written by Robyn V. Young and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In addition to profiling 300 mathematicians from ancient times to the present day, this volume includes women and minorities, provides a timeline of mathematics, lists winners of mathematical awards and prizes, and indexes its subjects by sex, nationality, and topic.
The Great Mathematicians
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Author : Raymond Flood
language : en
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing
Release Date : 2012-06-01
The Great Mathematicians written by Raymond Flood and has been published by Arcturus Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-01 with History categories.
Why did Florence Nightingale introduce pie charts? How did Lewis Carroll regard Pythagoras? Who learned calculus from her nursery wallpaper? Spanning from the ancient world to the modern age, The Great Mathematicians tells fascinating and unusual tales of the men and women who transformed mathematics. We meet the mathematician who knew eight languages by the time he was 11, the one who was sent to jail for gambling and the one who published a lot yet never existed. As well as providing rich bibliographic detail, Professors Raymond Flood and Robin Wilson explain various theorems using concise and accessible language. These include the Pythagorean theorem, Gödel's Incompleteness theorem, Fermat's Last Theorem and many more. Flood and Wilson are both former presidents of the British Society for the History of Mathematics and are uniquely qualified to lay out this incredible tale. This entertaining and rigorously accurate book presents mathematics with a human face, celebrating the achievements of the greatest mathematicians across history.