Of Men and Numbers: The Story of the Great Mathematicians

While mathematics itself may be a formidable subject for many, the lives and accomplishments of history's greatest mathematicians—from Pythagoras to Cantor—offer fascinating reading.
In this delightful and informative recounting, for example, we learn how Pascal's life was abruptly changed by a family of fanatical bonesetters, how Descartes was influenced by three dreams, and how the scholarly Swiss Leonhard Euler (whose famous conjecture was finally disproved in 1959, after 177 years) alm...