دانلود کتاب Men of Mathematics: The Lives and Achievements of the Great Mathematicians from Zeno to Poincaré

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1. INTRODUCTION

2. MODERN MINDS IN ANCIENT BODIES
ZENO(fifth century B.C.), EUDOXUS (408-355 B.C.), ARCHIMEDES (287?-212 B.C.)

3. GENTLEMAN, SOLDIER, AND MATHEMATICIAN
DESCARTES (1596-1650)

4. THE PRINCE OF AMATEURS
FERMAT (1601-1665)

5. “GREATNESS AND MISERY OF MAN”
PASCAL (1623-1662)

6. ON THE SEASHORE
NEWTON (1642-1727)

7. MASTER OF ALL TRADES
LEIBNIZ (1646-1716)

8. NATURE OR NURTURE?
THE BERNOULLIS (seventeenth-and eighteenth centuries)

9. ANALYSIS INCARNATE
EULER (1707-1783)

10. A LOFTY PYRAMID
LAGRANGE (1736-1813)

11. FROM PEASANT TO SNOB
LAPLACE(1749-1827)

12. FRIENDS OF AN EMPEROR
MONGE (1746-1818), FOURIER (1768-1830)

13. THE DAY OF GLORY
PONCELET(1788-1867)

14. THE PRINCE OF MATHEMATICIANS
GAUSS (1777-1855)

15. MATHEMATICS AND WINDMILLS
CAUCHY (1789-1857)

16. THE COPERNICUS OF GEOMETRY
LOBATCHEWSKY (1793-1856)

17. GENIUS AND POVERTY
ABEL (1802-1829)

18. THE GREAT ALGORIST
JACOBI (1804-1851)

19. AN IRISH TRAGEDY
HAMILTON (1805-1865)

20. GENIUS AND STUPIDITY
GALOIS (1811-1832)

21. INVARIANT TWINS
SYLVESTER (1814-1897); CAYLEY (1821-1895)

22. MASTER AND PUPIL
WEIERSTRASS (1815-1897); SONJA KOWALEWSKI (1850-1891)

23. COMPLETE INDEPENDENCE
BOOLE (1815-1864)

24. THE MAN, NOT THE METHOD
HERMITE (1822-1901)

25. THE DOUBTER
KRONECKER (1823-1891)

26. ANIMA CANDIDA
RIEMANN (1826-1866)

27. ARITHMETIC THE SECOND
KUMMER (1810-1893), DEDEKIND (1831-1916)

28. THE LAST UNIVERSALIST
POINCARÉ (1854-1912)

29. PARADISE LOST?
CANTOR(1845-1918)

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