Of Men and Numbers: The Story of the Great Mathematicians

by Jane Muir

Overview

Of Men and Numbers, first published in 1963, is a fascinating look at the lives and works of history's greatest mathematicians. Beginning with the early Egyptians and Greeks such as Pythagoras, Euclid and Archimedes, author Jane Muir then describes, in non-technical terms, the discoveries and personal stories of math greats such as Descartes, Pascal, and Newton, and continues with the important work of more recent mathematicians such as Nicholas Lobatchevsky, Évariste Galois, and Georg Cantor. Illustrated throughout with line drawings and figures.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781088152348
Publisher:	Pathfinder Books
Publication date:	05/15/2023
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	1,035,131
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.54(d)

Table of Contents

"Pythagoras, Euclid, and Archimedes"
Cardano
René Descartes
Blaise Pascal
Isaac Newton
Leonhard Euler
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Nicholas Lobatchevsky
Evariste Galois
Georg Cantor
Bibliography
Index