God created the integers : the mathematical breakthroughs that changed history / edited, with commentary, by Stephen Hawking
2006, First Edition. London : Penguin. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Item #413296
ISBN: 014101878X
Physical description: xiii, 1160 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm. Notes: Originally published: Philadelphia, Pa. : Running, 2005. Includes bibliographical references. Contents: Life and work of: Euclid -- Archimedes -- Diophantus -- René Descartes -- Isaac Newton -- Pierre Simon de Laplace -- Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier -- Carl Friedrich Gauss -- Augustin-Louis Cauchy -- George Boole -- georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann -- Karl Weierstrass -- Richard Julius Wilhelm Dedekind -- Georg Cantor -- Henri Lebesgue -- Kurt Gödel -- Alan Mathison Turing. Subjects: Mathematics; Mathematics History; Mathematicians ; Biography.
Price: €14.95