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Ioan James introduces and profiles sixty mathematicians from
an era which saw mathematics freed from its classical origins to
develop into its modern form. The characters, all born between 1700
and 1910, come from a wide range of countries, and all made an
important contribution to mathematics, through their ideas, their
teaching, their influence, and so on. The book is organised
chronologically into ten chapters, each of which contains potted
life stories of six mathematicians. The playe
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Preface;
1. From Euler to Legendre;
2. From Fourier to Cauchy;
3. From Abel to Grassmann;
4. From Kummer to Cayley;
5. From Hermite to Lie;
6. From Cantor to Hilbert;
7. From Moore to Takagi;
8. From Hardy to Lefschetz;
9. From Birkhoff to Alexander;
10. From Banach to von Neumann; Epilogue; Further reading.
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