Great feuds in mathematics / Hellman, Hal

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9780471648772
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510

Great feuds in mathematics

ten of the liveliest disputes ever
2006
Profiles feuds between such figures as Gerolamo Cardano and Tartaglia, Pierre de Fermat and Ren? Descartes, Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, and David Hilbert and L. E. J. Brouwer, discussing their respective arguments, their motivation, and the mathematical legacies of the discoveries over which they fought.
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