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'''''God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History''''' is an [[anthology]] of |
'''''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".<ref>[[Stephen Hawking]], 2005. ''God Created the Integers'' p xi</ref> 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''".<ref>[[Eric Temple Bell]], 1986. ''Men of Mathematics'', Simon and Schuster, New York. p. 477</ref> 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: |
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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
- Pierre-Simon Laplace
- Joseph Fourier
- Carl Friedrich Gauss
- Augustin-Louis Cauchy
- George Boole
- Bernhard Riemann
- Karl Weierstrass
- Richard Dedekind
- Georg Cantor
- Henri Lebesgue
- Kurt Gödel
- Alan Turing
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.