The great mathematicians
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The great mathematicians
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eng
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The great mathematicians
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699681
Summary
A biography of mathematics includes stories of great mathematicians from the 6th century B.C. to the present
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Early beginnings: Thales, Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans -- Eudoxus and the Athenian school -- Alexandria: Euclid, Archimedes, and Apollonius -- The second Alexandrian school: Pappus and Diophantus -- The Renaissance: Napier and Kepler; the rise of analysis -- Descartes and Pascal: the early French geometers and their contemporaries -- Isaac Newton -- The Bernoullis and Euler -- McLaurin and Lagrange -- Gauss and Hamilton: the nineteenth century -- More recent developments
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