Courant

Courant

by Constance Reid
Courant

Courant

by Constance Reid

Paperback(1996)

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Overview

"...a story of great mathematicians and their achievements, of practical successes and failures, and of human perfidy and generosity...this is one of the still too rare occasions in which mathematicians are shown as frail, flesh-and-blood creatures...a very worthwhile book." -CHOICE

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780387946702
Publisher: Springer New York
Publication date: 04/19/1996
Series: Copernicus Series
Edition description: 1996
Pages: 318
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.36(d)

About the Author

Constance Reid has been called "the foremost mathematical biographer of our time." Her many books include From Zero to Infinity, A Long Way from Euclid, The Search for E.T. Bell, and Neyman, from Life.

Table of Contents

Alpha and Omega.- One.- Two.- Three.- Four.- Five.- Six.- Seven.- Eight.- Nine.- Ten.- Eleven.- Twelve.- Thirteen.- Fourteen.- Fifteen.- Sixteen.- Seventeen.- Eighteen.- Nineteen.- Twenty.- Twenty-One.- Twenty-Two.- Twenty-Three.- Twenty-Four.- Twenty-Five.- Twenty-Six.- Twenty-Seven.- Twenty-Eight.
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