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Title:

God created the integers : the mathematical breakthroughs that changed history / edited, with commentary, by Stephen Hawking.

Edition:

New ed.

Publisher:

Running Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xv, 1358 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Mathematics.
Mathematics--History.
Mathematicians.--Biography.

Other Authors:

Hawking, S. W. (Stephen W.)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Euclid (c.325 BC-265 BC) -- Archimedes (287 BC-212 BC) -- Diophantus (third century AD) -- René Descartes (1596-1650) -- Isaac Newton (1642-1727) -- Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) -- Pierre Simon de Laplace (1749-1827) -- Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) -- Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) -- Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789-1857) -- Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789-1857) -- János Bolyai (1802-1860) -- Évariste Galois (1811-1832) -- George Boole (1815-1864) -- George Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) -- Karl Weierstrass (1815-1897) -- Richard Julius Wilhelm Dedekind (1831-1916) -- Georg Cantor (1845-1918) -- Henri Lebesgue (1875-1941) -- Kurt Gödel (1906-1978) -- Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954).

ISBN:

9780762430048
0762430044
0762430044 (pbk.)
9780762430048 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)148913555

LCCN:

2007920542

Locations:

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

GLAX641 -- Marshalltown Community College Library (Marshalltown)