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100 1  $a Posamentier, Alfred S., $e author.
245 10 $a Math makers : $b the lives and works of 50 famous mathematicians / $c Alfred S. Posamentier and Christian Spreitzer.
246 3  $a Lives and works of 50 famous mathematicians
264  1 $a Guilford, Connecticut : $b Prometheus Books, $c [2020]
300    $a xiv, 420 pages : $b illustrations, portraits ; $c 24 cm
520    $a "Two veteran math educators concisely profile leading mathematicians throughout history highlighting their often unusual personalities and lives while giving average readers insights into the importance of their mathematical discoveries."-- $c Provided by publisher.
504    $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-420).
505 00 $g Introduction -- $t Maryam Mirzakhani : Iranian (1977-2017). $t Pythagoras : Greek (575-500 BCE) -- $t Eudoxus of Cnidus : Greek (390-337 BCE) -- $t Euclid : Greek (c.300 BCE) -- $t Archimedes : Greek(c.287-c.212 BCE) -- $t Eratosthenes : Greek (276-194 BCE) -- $t Claudius Ptolemy : Greco-Roman (100-170) -- $t Diophantus of Alexandria : Hellenistic Greek (c.201-285) -- $t Brahmagupta : India (598-668) -- $t Leonardo Pisano Bigollo, "Fibonacci" : Italian (1170-1250) -- $t Gerolamo Cardano : Italian (1501-1576) -- $t John Napier : Scottish (1550-1617) -- $t Johannes Kepler : German (1571- 1630) -- $t René Descartes : French (1596-1650) -- $t Pierre de Fermat : French (1607-1665) -- $t Blaise Pascal : French (1623-1662) -- $t Isaac Newton : English (1642-1727) -- $t Gottfried Wilhelm (von) Leibniz : German (1646-1716) -- $t Giovanni Ceva : Italian (1647-1734) -- $t Robert Simson : Scottish (1687-1768) -- $t Christian Goldbach : German (1690-1764) -- $t The Bernoullis : Swiss (1700-1782) -- $t Leonhard Euler : Swiss (1707-1783) -- $t Maria Gaetana Agnesi : Italian (1718-1799) -- $t Pierre Simon Laplace : French (1749-1827) -- $t Lorenzo Mascheroni : Italian (1750-1800) -- $t Joseph-Louis Lagrange : French/Italian (1736 -- $t 1813) -- $t Sophie Germain : French (1776-1831) -- $t Carl Friedrich Gauss : German (1777-1855) -- $t Charles Babbage : English (1791-1871) -- $t Niels Henrik Abel : Norwegian (1802-1829) -- $t Évariste Galois : French (1811-1832) -- $t James Joseph Sylvester : English (1814-1897) -- $t Ada Lovelace : English (1815-1852) -- $t George Boole : English (1815-1864) -- $t Bernhard Riemann : German (1826-1866) -- $t Georg Cantor : German (1845-1918) -- $t Sofia Kovalevskaya : Russian (1850-1891) -- $t Giuseppe Peano : Italian (1858-1932) -- $t David Hilbert : German (1862-1943) -- $t G.H. Hardy : English (1877-1947) -- $t Emmy Noether : German (1882-1935) -- $t Srinivasa Ramanujan : India (1887-1920) -- $t John von Neumann : Hungarian-American (1903-1957) -- $t Kurt Godel : Austrian-American (1906-1978) -- $t Alan Turing : English (1912-1954) -- $t Paul Erdős : Hungarian (1913-1996) -- $t Herbert A. Hauptman : American (1917-2011) -- $t Benoit Mandelbrot : Polish-American (1924-2010) -- $t Maryam Mirzakhani : Iranian (1977-2017).
650  0 $a Mathematicians $v Biography.
650  0 $a Mathematics $x History.
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