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Journey Through Genius

Paperback • 1990 • English

Journey Through Genius: The great theorems of mathematics

By William Dunham

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About the book

<b>Like masterpieces of art, music, and literature, great mathematical theorems are creative milestones, works of genius destined to last forever. Now William Dunham gives them the attention they deserve.</b> <p>Dunham places each theorem within its historical context and explores the very human and often turbulent life of the creator -- from Archimedes, the absentminded theoretician whose absorption in his work often precluded eating or bathing, to Gerolamo Cardano, the sixteenth-century mathem...Show more

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9780140147391

Published year

1990

Language

English

Original title

Journey Through Genius

Format

Paperback

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