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Lectures on Ten British Mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century (1919) » Read Now
by Alexander MacFarlane. 148 pgs.

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The Great Mathematicians » Read Now
by Herbert Westren Turnbull. 146 pgs.

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...Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name...whom were well-read mathematicians. Plato was perhaps...conducting in Athens his famous Academy. Over the entrance...of...
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Notable Women in Mathematics: A Biographical Dictionary » Read Now
by Charlene Morrow, Teri Perl. 302 pgs.

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This volume features substantive biographical essays on 59 women from around the world who have made significant contributions to mathematics from antiquity to the present. Designed for secondary school students and the general public, each profile describes major life events, obstacles faced and...
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This volume features substantive biographical essays on 59 women from around the world who have made significant contributions to mathematics from antiquity to the present. Designed for secondary school students and the general public, each profile describes major life events, obstacles faced and overcome, educational and career milestones--including a discussion of mathematical research in non-technical terms--and interests outside of mathematics. Although the collection includes historical women, the emphasis is on contemporary mathematicians, many of whom have not been profiled in any previous work. Also included are the contributions of minority women, including 10 African-American, Latina, and Asian mathematicians.
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Women in Mathematics » Read Now
by Lynn M. Osen. 165 pgs.

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...very few great mathematicians have been lionized...become extravagantly famous. But it is interesting...to the life of a famous man. It is tiresome...male and female...
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Alan Turing: The Enigma » Read Now
by Andrew Hodges. 588 pgs.

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Alan Turing (1912-54) was a British mathematician who made history. His breaking of the German U-boat Enigma cipher in World War II ensured Allied-American control of the Atlantic. But Turing's vision went far beyond the desperate wartime struggle. Already in the 1930s he had defined the concept of...
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Alan Turing (1912-54) was a British mathematician who made history. His breaking of the German U-boat Enigma cipher in World War II ensured Allied-American control of the Atlantic. But Turing's vision went far beyond the desperate wartime struggle. Already in the 1930s he had defined the concept of the universal machine, which underpins the computer revolution. In 1945 he was a pioneer of electronic computer design. But Turing's true goal was the scientific understanding of the mind, brought out in the drama and wit of the famous "Turing test" for machine intelligence and in his prophecy for the twenty-first century. nbsp; Drawn in to the cockpit of world events and the forefront of technological innovation, Alan Turing was also an innocent and unpretentious gay man trying to live in a society that criminalized him. In 1952 he revealed his homosexuality and was forced to participate in a humiliating treatment program, and was ever after regarded as a security risk. His suicide in 1954 remains one of the many enigmas in an astonishing life story.
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It Seems I Am a Jew: A Samizdat Essay » Read Now
by G. A. Freiman, Melvyn B. Nathanson. 106 pgs.

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...the creative research mathematicians." "Wouldnt it be better...examples. The son of the famous mathematician K was...group of highly placed mathematicians devoted, con...
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Galois Lectures (1941) » Read Now
by Jesse Douglas, Philip Franklin, Cassius Jackson Keyser, Leopold Infeld. 126 pgs.

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...simpler than the many famous unproved conjectures...required. Many European mathematicians have worked at the...science and great mathematicians. Perhaps it would...
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Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem » Read Now
by Simon Singh. 315 pgs.

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Fermat's Last Theorem became the Holy Grail of mathematics. Whole and colorful lives were devoted, and even sacrificed, to finding a proof. Leonhard Euler, the greatest mathematician of the eighteenth century, had to admit defeat. Sophie Germain took on the identity of a man to do research in a...
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Fermat's Last Theorem became the Holy Grail of mathematics. Whole and colorful lives were devoted, and even sacrificed, to finding a proof. Leonhard Euler, the greatest mathematician of the eighteenth century, had to admit defeat. Sophie Germain took on the identity of a man to do research in a field forbidden to females, and made the most significant breakthrough of the nineteenth century. The dashing Evariste Galois scribbled down the results of his research deep into the night before venturing out to die in a duel in 1832. Yutaka Taniyama, whose insights would ultimately lead to the solution, tragically killed himself in 1958. On the other hand, Paul Wolfskehl, a famous German industrialist, claimed Fermat had saved him from suicide, and established a rich prize for the first person to prove the theorem. And then came Princeton professor Andrew Wiles, who had dreamed of proving Fermat's Last Theorem ever since he first read of it as a boy of ten in his local library. In 1993, some 356 years after Fermat's challenge, and after seven years of working in isolation and secrecy - "a kind of private and very personal battle I was engaged in" - Wiles stunned the world by announcing a proof, though his own journey would be far from over. Fermat's Enigma is the story of the epic quest to solve the greatest math problem of all time. A human drama of high dreams, intellectual brilliance, and extraordinary determination, it will bring the history and culture of mathematics into exciting focus for all who read it.
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Pascal: The Emergence of Genius » Read Now
by Emile Cailliet. 383 pgs.

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...v. 12 , 5. 4 Cf. famous fragment 793 on the three orders...clear, was one of the great mathematicians of his day. A student of Greek...inconceivable. To quote from the...
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Western Thought and Indian Thought: Comments on Ramanujan, in Philosophy East & West » Read Now
by Fred Dallmayr. 16 pgs.

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...INDIAN THOUGHT: COMMENTS ON RAMANUJAN Rudyard Kiplings famous saying about how the "twain," the two cultures, "shall never...divisions of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism...
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Artisans and Mathematicians in Medieval Islam, in The Journal of the American Oriental Society » Read Now
by George Saliba. 9 pgs.

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...ARTISANS AND MATHEMATICIANS IN MEDIEVAL ISLAM. by GEORGE...collection" (p. 29). In light of the Ottomans famous practice of recording almost everything...what I. Goldziher...
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Nerds? or Nuts? Pop Culture Portrayals of Mathematicians, in ETC.: A Review of General Semantics » Read Now
by Janelle L. Wilson, Carmen M. Latterell. 7 pgs.

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...premedit ated! Now, many of the famous mathematicians were indeed mentally ill, but there...that mental illness runs high among mathematicians in general. In addition, many...
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Cardano's Solution, in History Today » Read Now
by Allan Ashworth. 6 pgs.

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...contribution to science. His most famous achievement was not his youthful...imaginary numbers, forcing mathematicians to rethink the relationship...anathema to logical men...
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The French Mathematician » Read Now
by Tom Petsinis. 428 pgs.

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...the truth. I will become a famous mathematician, and those...textbooks, but biographies of mathematicians. At the same time he has...problems which still challenge...