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| Author | Ian Stewart |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | Basic Books |
Publication date | September 12, 2017 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Hardcover |
| Pages | 303 |
| ISBN | 0465096123 |
Significant Figures: The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians is a 2017 nonfiction book by British mathematician Ian Stewart FRS CMath FIMA, published by Basic Books.[1] In the work, Stewart discusses the lives and contributions of 25 figures who are prominent in the history of mathematics.[2] The 25 mathematicians selected are: Archimedes, Liu Hui, Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī, Madhava of Sangamagrama, Gerolamo Cardano, Pierre de Fermat, Isaac Newton, Euler, Fourier, Gauss, Lobachevsky, Galois, Ada Lovelace, Boole, Riemann, Cantor, Sofia Kovalevskaia, Poincaré, Hilbert, Emmy Noether, Ramanujan, Gödel, Turing, Mandelbrot, and Thurston.[3]
- ^ Stewart, Ian; Basic Books (2017). Significant Figures: the lives and work of great mathematicians. New York: Basic Books. p. 303. ISBN 978-0-465-09612-1. OCLC 1030547312.
- ^ Hunacek, Mark (22 September 2017). "Review of Significant Figures by Ian Stewart". MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.
- ^ Bultheel, Adhemar (20 July 2017). "Review of Significant Figures". European Mathematical Society.