At a glance:
- First Published: 1937
- Time of Work: The fifth century to the twentieth century
- Setting: Greece, France, Germany, England, Russia, Ireland, and Switzerland
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Intellectuals, France or French people, Science or scientists, Genius, England or English people, Germany or German people, Greek or Roman times, Biography, Russia or Russian people, Mathematics or mathematicians, Thought or thinking
- Locales: France, Europe, England, Germany, Ireland, Russia, Greece, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Form and Content
Replete with prickly comments on human behavior, E. T. Bell’s Men of Mathematics presents the lives of forty eminent scientists and thinkers from Greece, France, England, Germany, Switzerland, Russia, and Norway. In twenty-nine chapters, the author covers almost 2,500 years in the history of mathematics.
Bell identifies Archimedes, Sir Isaac Newton, and Carl Friedrich Gauss as the three greatest mathematicians, and for that reason all readers of his book should peruse the chapters on them. When it comes to combining mathematical genius...
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