Men of Mathematics [Paperback]

The lives and achievements of the great mathematicians from Zeno to Poincaré - by E. T. Bell.This book is written not merely for those with a special interest in the subject but for all those who are fascinated by the explosive growth of science since 1900. Anyone who is at all interested in the sciences, anyone who has been puzzled and intrigued by the laws of chance and probability, Einstein, and the mystery of numbers will want to read Dr. Bell's book. Among great mathematicians whose lives and ideas appear in "Men Of Mathematics" are: Zeno, Descartes, Fermat, Pascal, Newton, Leibniz, Euler, Lagrange, Laplace, Gauss, Lobatchewsky, Galois, Sylvester, Boole, Hermite, Kronecker, Poincaré, Cantor