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The Great Mathematicians

By Raymond Flood

The Great Mathematicians

By Raymond Flood

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
384
Release Date:
2018-12-15
Publication Date:
2019-04-15
Publisher:
Arcturus Publishing Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1788886941
ISBN13:
9781788886949
Weight:
286 g
Height:
198 cm
Width:
130 cm
Thickness:
23 cm
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