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| Author | Stephen Hawking |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Mathematics |
| Publisher | Running Press |
Publication date | 2005 (first edition) 2007 (second edition) |
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| Pages | 1176 |
| ISBN | 9780762419227 (first edition) 9780762430048 (second edition) |
| Preceded by | A Briefer History of Time |
| Followed by | The Grand Design |
God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History is a 2005 anthology, edited by Stephen Hawking, of "excerpts from thirty-one of the most important works in the history of mathematics."[1]
The title of the book is a reference to a quotation attributed to mathematician Leopold Kronecker, who once wrote that "God made the integers; all else is the work of man."[2]
- ^ Stephen Hawking, 2005. God Created the Integers. p. xi.
- ^ Eric Temple Bell, 1986. Men of Mathematics, Simon and Schuster, New York. p. 477