Makers of Mathematics jumping to conclusions

jumping to conclusions

one- and many-valued functions of a complex variable

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Its gentle humor takes the reader into the hills with the author

Makers of Mathematics jumping to conclusionsFascinating and highly readable, this book recounts the history of mathematics as revealed in the lives and writings of the most distinguished practitioners of the art: Archimedes, Descartes, Fermat, Pascal, Newton, Leibniz, Euler, Gauss, Hamilton, Einstein, and many more. Author Stuart Hollingdale introduces and explains the roles of these gifted and often colorful figures in the development of mathematics as well as the ways in which their work