God created the integers : the mathematical breakthroughs that changed history

Author

S W Hawking

Call Number

• 510 G5771 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Philadelphia, Pa. : Running Press, c2005.

Physical Description

xiii, 1160 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents

• Euclid (c.325 BC-265 BC)
• Archimedes (287 BC-212 BC)
• Diophantus (third century AD)
• René Descartes (1596-1650)
• Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
• Pierre Simon de Laplace (1749-1827)
• Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830)
• Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855)
• Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789-1857)
• George Boole (1815-1864)
• George Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866)
• Karl Weierstrass (1815-1897)
• Richard Julius Wilhelm Dedekind (1831-1916)
• Georg Cantor (1845-1918)
• Henri Lebesgue (1875-1941)
• Kurt Gödel (1906-1978)
• Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954).