• Title: Men of Mathematics: The Lives and Achievements of the Great Mathematicians from Zeno to Poincaré
• Author(s) E. T. Bell
• Publisher: Touchstone; reprint edition (January 1, 2008); eBook (Internet Archive Edition))
• Hardcover/Paperback: 608 pages
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• Language: English
• ISBN-10/ASIN: 1416597611
• ISBN-13: 978-1416597612
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This book provides a rich account of major mathematical milestones, from the geometry of the Greeks through Newton’s calculus, and on to the laws of probability, symbolic logic, and the fourth dimension. Bell breaks down this majestic history of ideas into a series of engrossing biographies of the great mathematicians who made progress possible—and who also led intriguing, complicated, and often surprisingly entertaining lives.

• E. T. Bell was a Scottish-born mathematician and science fiction writer who lived in the United States for most of his life.

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