Amir D Aczel
Author
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"Bestselling popular science author Amir Aczel selects the most fascinating individuals and stories in the history of mathematics ...Through such mathematical geniuses as Archimedes, Leonardo of Pisa (a.k.a. Fibonacci), Tartaglia ("the stutterer"), Descartes, Gottfried Liebniz, Carl Gauss, Joseph Fourier (Napoleon's mathematician), Evariste Galois, Georg Cantor, Ramanujan, and "Nicholas Bourbaki," we gather little known details about the alliances...