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Significant Figures

Hardcover • 2017 • 1. edition

Significant Figures

By Ian Stewart

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About the book

Which mathematician elaborated a crucial concept the night before he died in a duel? Who funded his maths and medical career through gambling and chess? Who learned maths from her wallpaper? Ian Stewart presents the extraordinary lives and amazing discoveries of twenty-five of history's greatest mathematicians from Archimedes and Liu Hui to Benoit Mandelbrot and William Thurston. His subjects are the inspiring individuals from all over the world who have made crucial contributions to mathematics...Show more

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9781781254295

Publisher

Profile Books Ltd

Published year

2017

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1

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Significant Figures

Format

Hardcover

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