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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

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Which mathematician elaborated a crucial concept the night before he died in a duel? Who funded his maths & medical career through gambling & chess? Who learned maths from her wallpaper?

Ian Stewart presents the extraordinary lives & amazing discoveries of twenty-five of historys greatest mathematicians from Archimedes & Liu Hui to Benoit Mandelbrot & William Thurston. His subjects are the inspiring individuals from all over the world who have made crucial contributions to mathematics.

They include the rediscovered geniuses Srinivasa Ramanujan & Emmy Noether, alongside the towering figures of Muhammad al-Khwarizmi (inventor of the algorithm), Pierre de Fermat, Isaac Newton, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, Bernhard Reimann (precursor to Einstein), Henri Poincaré, Ada Lovelace (arguably the first computer programmer), Kurt Gödel & Alan Turing.

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• ISBN: 9781781254295
• Author: Ian Stewart
• Publisher: Profile Books
• Format: Hardback
• Pages: 305
• Dimensions: 24 x 16 x 3cm

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With over 300 UK stores and more than 40000 different products in store each year, The Works is Britain's top discount book store. A well known presence on the high street, The Works was founded in 1981 to bring affordable books to the public. It now offers a large range of exciting products, including arts and crafts products, toys, gifts and seasonal products, all at discounted prices, making it a superb place to find items for hobbies and gifts for all ages. The book selection includes children's books, fiction and non-fiction books on a wide range of subjects from food and drink and craft and DIY to entertainment, autobiographies and history. Art and crafts products range from children's craft sets to sewing materials and professional artists' brushes. As well as big brands, The Works also sells their own high quality branded products.
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