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- catalog abstract "A collection of biographies describing the lives and achievements of 29 mathematicians. Includes Zeno, Descartes, Fermat, Pascal, Newton, and Leibniz.".
- catalog contributor b874762.
- catalog created "1937.".
- catalog date "1937".
- catalog date "1937.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1937.".
- catalog description "A collection of biographies describing the lives and achievements of 29 mathematicians. Includes Zeno, Descartes, Fermat, Pascal, Newton, and Leibniz.".
- catalog description "Introduction -- Modern minds in ancient bodies [Zeno (fifth century B.C.), Eudoxus (408-355 B.C., Archimedes (287?-212 B.C.)] -- Gentleman, soldier, and mathematician [Decartes (1596-1650)] -- The prince of amateurs [Fermat (1601-1665)]-- "Greatness and misery of man" [Pascal (1623-1662)] -- On the seashore [Newton (1642-1727)] -- Master of all trades [Leibniz (1646-1716)] -- Nature or nurture? [The Bernoullis (seventeenth and eighteenth centuries)] -- Analysis incarnate [Euler (1707-1783)] -- A Lofty pyramid [Lagranade (1736-1813)] -- From peasant to snob [LaPlace (1749-1827)] -- Friends of an emperor [Monge (1746-1818), Fourier (1768-1830)] -- The day of glory [Poncelet (1788-1867)] -- The prince of mathematicians [Gauss (1777-1855)] -- Mathematics and Windmills [Cauchy (1789-1857)] -- The Copernicus of geometry [Lobatchewsky (1793-1856)] -- Genius and poverty [Abel (1802-1829)] -- The great algorist [Jacobi (1804 -- 1851)] -- An Irish tragedy [Hamilton (1805 -- 1865)] -- Genius and stupidity [Galois (1811 -- 1832)] -- Invariant twins [Sylvester (1814-1897), Cayley (1821-1895)] -- Master and pupil [Weierstrass (1815-1897), Sonja Kowalewski (1850-1891)] -- Complete independence [Boole (1815-1864)] -- The Man, not the method [Hermite (1822-1901)] -- The doubter [Kronecker (1823-1891)] -- Anima candida [Riemann (1826-1866)] -- Arithmetic the second [Kummer (1810-1893)] -- The last universalist [Poincare (1854-1912)] -- Paradise lost? [Cantor (1845-1918)].".
- catalog extent "xxi, 592 p., 1 l.".
- catalog issued "1937".
- catalog issued "1937.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York, Simon and Schuster,".
- catalog subject "925.1".
- catalog subject "Mathematicians.".
- catalog subject "Mathematics History.".
- catalog subject "Mathematics history.".
- catalog subject "QA 28 B433m 1937".
- catalog subject "QA28 .B4".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- Modern minds in ancient bodies [Zeno (fifth century B.C.), Eudoxus (408-355 B.C., Archimedes (287?-212 B.C.)] -- Gentleman, soldier, and mathematician [Decartes (1596-1650)] -- The prince of amateurs [Fermat (1601-1665)]-- "Greatness and misery of man" [Pascal (1623-1662)] -- On the seashore [Newton (1642-1727)] -- Master of all trades [Leibniz (1646-1716)] -- Nature or nurture? [The Bernoullis (seventeenth and eighteenth centuries)] -- Analysis incarnate [Euler (1707-1783)] -- A Lofty pyramid [Lagranade (1736-1813)] -- From peasant to snob [LaPlace (1749-1827)] -- Friends of an emperor [Monge (1746-1818), Fourier (1768-1830)] -- The day of glory [Poncelet (1788-1867)] -- The prince of mathematicians [Gauss (1777-1855)] -- Mathematics and Windmills [Cauchy (1789-1857)] -- The Copernicus of geometry [Lobatchewsky (1793-1856)] -- Genius and poverty [Abel (1802-1829)] -- The great algorist [Jacobi (1804 -- 1851)] -- An Irish tragedy [Hamilton (1805 -- 1865)] -- Genius and stupidity [Galois (1811 -- 1832)] -- Invariant twins [Sylvester (1814-1897), Cayley (1821-1895)] -- Master and pupil [Weierstrass (1815-1897), Sonja Kowalewski (1850-1891)] -- Complete independence [Boole (1815-1864)] -- The Man, not the method [Hermite (1822-1901)] -- The doubter [Kronecker (1823-1891)] -- Anima candida [Riemann (1826-1866)] -- Arithmetic the second [Kummer (1810-1893)] -- The last universalist [Poincare (1854-1912)] -- Paradise lost? [Cantor (1845-1918)].".
- catalog title "Men of mathematics, by E.T. Bell.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".