GOD CREATED THE INTEGERS: THE MATHEMATICAL BREAKTHROUGHS THAT CHANGED HISTORY
by HAWKING, STEPHEN
List Price: HK$ 285.00
ˇ@ISBN
9780762419227
ˇ@Subject
SCIENCE & NATURE
ˇ@Publisher
RUNNING PRESS USA
ˇ@Publication
2005
ˇ@Edition
Hardcover
ˇ@Version
Original
ˇ@Description
Best-selling author and physicist Stephen Hawking explores the ˇ§masterpiecesˇ¨ of mathematics through 31 landmark works, spanning 2,500 years and representing 17 mathematicians. From the geometry of Euclid, through the calculus of Newton, the probabilities of Laplace to the thought of Boole, this extraordinary volume allows readers to peer into the mind of genius by providing them with excerpts from the original mathematical proofs and results. It also charts the progression of mathematical thought ˇV granting the reader a solid understanding of the very foundations of some of out current technologies.
