Reviews
The authors' careful treatments are an especially welcome addition to a genre riddled with apocryphal anecdotes and shoddy scholarship.
A fine book, providing for agreeable and easy reading.
Book Details
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Tour of the Literature
1. Mathematicians and Their World
2. Mathematical Ability
3. The Dynamics of Mathematical Creation
Part II: Twenty Mathematical Personalities
4. Lagrange
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Tour of the Literature
1. Mathematicians and Their World
2. Mathematical Ability
3. The Dynamics of Mathematical Creation
Part II: Twenty Mathematical Personalities
4. Lagrange, Gauss, Cauchy, and Dirichlet
5. Hamilton, Galois, Byron, and Riemann
6. Cantor, Kovalevskaya, Poincaré, and Hilbert
7. Hadamard, Hardy, Noether, and Ramanujan
8. Fisher, Wiener, Dirac, and Gödel
References
Index