Remarkable Mathematicians: From Euler to von Neumann (The Spectrum Series) - Hardcover

James, Ioan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521817773 ISBN 13: 9780521817776

Publisher: The Mathematical Association of America, 2003

Synopsis

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 2003 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.

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About the Author

Ioan James is the former Savilian Professor of Geometry at the University of Oxford. He won both the Junior Berwick and Whitehead Prizes of the London Mathematical Society.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Mathematical Association of America
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0521817773
• ISBN 13: 9780521817776
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 448