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.
關於作者:
Stephen Hawking is a theoretical physicist and, like Sir Isaac
Newton before him, a Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at
Cambridge. He is the author of the bestselling A Brief History of
Time, which remained on the New York Times bestseller list for a
record-breaking 237 weeks. Curiously, Hawking was born 300 years to
the day after Galileo died. --This text refers to an alternate
Paperback edition.