God created the integers : the mathematical breakthroughs that changed history

By:

Stephen Hawking

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Penguin, 2006.Description: xiii, 1160 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cmISBN:

9780141018782

DDC classification:

510 STE

Contents:

Life and work of: Euclid -- Archimedes -- Diophantus -- René Descartes -- . Isaac Newton -- Pierre Simon de Laplace -- Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier -- Carl Friedrich Gauss -- Augustin-Louis Cauchy -- George Boole -- georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann -- Karl Weierstrass -- Richard Julius Wilhelm Dedekind -- Georg Cantor -- Henri Lebesgue -- Kurt Gödel -- Alan Mathison Turing

Summary: God Created the Integers' is Stephen Hawking's personal choice of the greatest mathematical works in history. He provides us with exerpts from original mathematical proofs and results and helps us understand the progression of mathematical thought, and the very foundations of our present day technologies.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	IIITDM Kurnool General Stacks	Fiction	510 STE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		0002555

Life and work of: Euclid --
Archimedes --
Diophantus --
René Descartes --
. Isaac Newton --
Pierre Simon de Laplace --
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier --
Carl Friedrich Gauss --
Augustin-Louis Cauchy --
George Boole --
georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann --
Karl Weierstrass --
Richard Julius Wilhelm Dedekind --
Georg Cantor --
Henri Lebesgue --
Kurt Gödel --
Alan Mathison Turing

God Created the Integers' is Stephen Hawking's personal choice of the greatest mathematical works in history. He provides us with exerpts from original mathematical proofs and results and helps us understand the progression of mathematical thought, and the very foundations of our present day technologies.

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