Significant Figures: The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians

by Ian Stewart

Book Overview

A celebrated mathematician traces the history of math through the lives and work of twenty-five pioneering mathematicians In Significant Figures, acclaimed mathematician Ian Stewart explores the work of 25 of history's most important mathematicians, showing how they developed on each other's work and built the mathematics we use today. Through these short biographies, we get acquainted with the history of mathematics from Archimedes to William Thurston,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465096123
• ISBN13: 9780465096121
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.4"