Significant Figures: Lives and Works of Trailblazing Mathematicians
Ian Stewart
Despite the mysterious origin of its individual elements, mathematics is not born in a vacuum: it is created by people. Some of these people show amazing originality and clarity of mind. It is to them that we owe great breakthrough discoveries, it is them that we call pioneers, trailblazers, significant figures in mathematics. Ian Stewart describes the discoveries and reveals the fate of 25 of the greatest mathematicians in history - from Archimedes to William Thurston. Each of these amazing people from different parts of the world made a decisive contribution to the development of their field of mathematics. These living stories, each of them captivating individually, add up to a fascinating history of the development of mathematics.
