mathematicians

Describes the life of the twentieth-century British mathematician, Alan Turing, and focuses on his accomplishments, which include deciphering techniques to solve German Enigma codes during World War II, and also his work toward building the world's first programmable computer.

A biography of ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and philosopher, Archimedes describing his life, education, and discoveries.

Examines the life and discoveries of Galileo, the Italian mathematician, astronomer, and physicist who laid the foundation for modern experimental science.

Examines the life and work of influential, seventeenth-century scientist Sir Isaac Newton.

A collection of biographies describing the lives and achievements of twenty-nine mathematicians. Includes Zeno, Descartes, Fermat, Pascal, Newton, and Leibniz.

Tells the early life of the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes from his education at Ptolemy's Museum in Alexandria to his home in Syracuse, as he gains fame and fortune as a royal engineer.

After teenage Sri Lankan Ranjit Subramanian, a math prodigy, reconstructs and publishes the famous last theorem of Pierre de Fermat, the powerful aliens called the Grand Galactics respond to the flash of nuclear explosions and decide to exterminate humanity just as Earth's superpowers develop a new, nonlethal, way of promoting global peace.

"Bestselling popular science author Amir Aczel selects the most fascinating individuals and stories in the history of mathematics, presenting a colorful narrative that explores the quirky personalities behind some of the most profound, enduring theorems. Through 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, " we gather little known details about the alliances and rivalries that profoundly impacted the development of what the scheming doctor-turned-mathematician Geronimo Cardano called "The Great Art." 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 (clearly, genius doesn't guarantee street smarts). Ultimately, readers will come away from this book entertained, with a newfound appreciation of the tenacity, complexity, eccentricity, and brilliance of the mathematical genius"--.

Traces the life of the mathematician who introduced Arabic numbers to Western Europe, including how the book "Liber Abbaci" enabled people to understand numbers, engage in commerce, and make advances in the fields of science, technology, and business.