Courant

ISBN-13: 9780387946702 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 318 str.

Constance Reid

Opis

..".a story of great mathematicians and their achievements, of practical successes and failures, and of human perfidy and generosity...this is one of the still too rare occasions in which mathematicians are shown as frail, flesh-and-blood creatures...a very worthwhile book." -CHOICE

Recenzje

From the reviews:

EMS NEWSLETTER

"...fascinating and well written..."

THE BULLETIN OF MATHEMATICS BOOKS

"Originally published to great acclaim, both books explore the dramatic scientific history expressed in the lives of these two great scientists and described in the lively, nontechnical writing style of Constance Reid."

 

Spis treści

Alpha and Omega.- One.- Two.- Three.- Four.- Five.- Six.- Seven.- Eight.- Nine.- Ten.- Eleven.- Twelve.- Thirteen.- Fourteen.- Fifteen.- Sixteen.- Seventeen.- Eighteen.- Nineteen.- Twenty.- Twenty-One.- Twenty-Two.- Twenty-Three.- Twenty-Four.- Twenty-Five.- Twenty-Six.- Twenty-Seven.- Twenty-Eight.