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Author Aczel, Amir D.

Title A strange wilderness : the lives of the great mathematicians / Amir D. Aczel.

Publication Info. New York : Sterling, 2011.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1509170~S1
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 Naper Blvd. Adult Nonfiction  510.922 ACZ    AVAILABLE
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Description xix, 284 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Summary A colorful narrative of such mathematical geniuses as Archimedes, Leonardo of Pisa (a.k.a. Fibonacci), Tartaglia ("the stutterer"), Descartes, Gottfried Liebniz, Carl Gauss, Joseph Fourier (Napoleon's mathematician), Evariste Galois, Georg Cantor, Ramanujan, and "Nicholas Bourbaki." This story of mathematics is not your dry "college textbook" account; tales of duels, battlefield heroism, flamboyant arrogance, pranks, secret societies, imprisonment, feuds, theft, and even some fatal errors of judgment fill these pages.--From publisher description.
Subject Mathematics -- History.
Mathematicians -- History.
ISBN 9781402785849 (hardback)
1402785844 (hardback)
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