God Created the Integers
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God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History is an 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] The works are grouped by author and ordered chronologically. Each section is prefaced by notes on the mathematician's life and work. The anthology includes works by the following mathematicians:
- Euclid
- Archimedes
- Diophantus
- René Descartes
- Isaac Newton
- Leonhard Euler
- Pierre-Simon Laplace
- Joseph Fourier
- Carl Friedrich Gauss
- Augustin-Louis Cauchy
- Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky
- Janos Bolyai
- Evariste Galois
- George Boole
- Bernhard Riemann
- Karl Weierstrass
- Richard Dedekind
- Georg Cantor
- Henri Lebesgue
- Kurt Gödel
- Alan Turing
[edit] Note
Selections from the works of Euler, Bolyai, Lobachevsky and Galois, which are included in the second edition of the book, were not included in the first edition.
[edit] References
- ^ Stephen Hawking, 2005. God Created the Integers p xi
- ^ Eric Temple Bell, 1986. Men of Mathematics, Simon and Schuster, New York. p. 477
- Hawking, Stephen (2005). God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History. Running Press Book Publishers. pp. 1160 (Hardback). ISBN 0762419229.
