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God Created The Integers

God Created The Integers

The Mathematical Breakthroughs that Changed History

by Stephen Hawking
Paperback
Publication Date: 18/09/2007

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Pulled together for the first time, and paired with commentary from the worlds most respected scholars, God Created the Integers presents historys extraordinary moments in math, culled from 2,500 years of history and 21 distinguished mathematicians, four more than the hardcover edition.

Each chapter begins with a profile of one of these mathematical masters, followed by original printings of their relevant works.

This new paperback edition includes the work of Euler, Galois, Bolyai, and Lobachevsky. Readers get a window into the minds of these geniuses and can see the unfolding thought process as it leads, inevitably, to the high-water marks in mathematical thinking.

This new edition comes with an index to make it a valuable and easy-to-use research and reference tool.

ISBN:
9780762430048
9780762430048
Category:
Mathematics
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
18-09-2007
Language:
English
Publisher:
Running Press,U.S.
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
1376
Dimensions (mm):
229x152x44mm
Weight:
1.57kg
Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking is regarded as one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists since Einstein. He held the position of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge for thirty years and was the author of A Brief History of Time which was an international bestseller.

His many publications include The Large Scale Structure of Spacetime with G F R Ellis, General Relativity: An Einstein Centenary Survey, with W Israel, and 300 Years of Gravitation, with W Israel.

Among the popular books Stephen Hawking has published are his best seller A Brief History of Time, Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays, The Universe in a Nutshell, The Grand Design and My Brief History.

His other books for the general reader include A Briefer History of Time, the essay collection Black Holes and Baby Universe and The Universe In A Nutshell.

Stephen Hawking died in March 2018.

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