Book:Eric Temple Bell/Men of Mathematics

Eric Temple Bell: Men of Mathematics

Published $\text {1937}$

Subject Matter

• History of Mathematics

Contents

I. Introduction

II. Modern Minds in Ancient Bodies: Zeno; Eudoxus; Archimedes

III. Gentleman, Soldier and Mathematician: Descartes

IV. The Prince of Amateurs: Fermat

V. "Greatness and Misery of Man": Pascal

VI. On the Seashore: Newton

VII. Master of All Trades: Leibniz

VIII. Nature or Nurture?: The Bernoullis

IX. Analysis Incarnate: Euler

X. A Lofty Pyramid: Lagrange

XI. From Peasant to Snob: Laplace

XII. Friends of an Emperor: Monge; Fourier

XIII. The Day of Glory: Poncelet

XIV. The Prince of Mathematicians: Gauss

XV. Mathematics and Windmills: Cauchy

XVI. The Copernicus of Geometry: Lobatchewsky

XVII. Genius and Poverty: Abel

XVIII. The Great Algorist: Jacobi

XIX. An Irish Tragedy: Hamilton

XX. Genius and Stupidity: Galois

XXI. Invariant Twins: Sylvester; Cayley

XXII. Master and Pupil: Weierstrass; Sonja Kovalevskaya

XXIII. Complete Independence: Boole

XXIV. The Man, Not The Method: Hermite

XXV. The Doubter: Kronecker

XXVI. Anima Candida: Riemann

XXVII. Arithmetic the Second: Kummer; Dedekind

XXVIII. The Last Universalist: Poincaré

XXIX. Paradise Lost?: Cantor

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Critical View

Although inspiring many young people to take up the study of mathematics, including famously John Forbes Nash, its content is in many places fanciful to the point of fictional.

Sources

• 1993: Richard J. Trudeau: Introduction to Graph Theory ... (previous) ... (next): $1$. Pure Mathematics: Why study pure mathematics?

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