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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Choice Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Aczel, Amir D.     Subjects     Mathematics -- History.     Mathematicians -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Aczel, Amir D.       by title:      A strange wilderness...       by call number:      510.922 A189s     Search the Web     Aczel, Amir D.     Mathematics -- History.     Mathematicians -- History.       MARC Display

A strange wilderness : the lives of the great mathematicians / Amir D. Aczel. by Aczel, Amir D. Sterling, c2011. Call #: 510.922 A189s Subjects Mathematics -- History.   Mathematicians -- History. ISBN:  9781402785849 (hardback) 1402785844 (hardback) Description:  xix, 284 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-271) and index. Contents:  Hellenic foundations. God is number ; Plato's Academy ; Alexandria -- The East. The House of Wisdom ; Medieval China -- Renaissance mathematics. Italian shenanigans ; Heresy -- To calculus and beyond. The gentleman soldier ; The greatest rivalry ; Geniuses of the Enlightenment -- Upheaval in France. Napoleon's mathematicians ; Duel at dawn -- Toward a new mathematics. Infinity and mental illness ; Unlikely heroes ; The strangest wilderness. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 510.922 A189s Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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