God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History (Paperback)

Stephen Hawking (author)

£18.99

Paperback 1184 Pages
Published: 07/09/2006

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Synopsis Author

GOD CREATED THE INTEGERS is Stephen Hawking's personal choice of the greatest mathematical works in history. He allows the reader to peer into the mind of genius by providing us with excerpts from original mathematical proofs and results. He also helps us understand the progression of mathematical thought, and the very foundations of our presentday technologies. The book includes landmark discoveries spanning 2500 years and representing the work of mathematicians such as Euclid, Georg Cantor, Kurt Godel, Augustin Cauchy, Bernard Riemann and Alan Turing. Each chapter begins with a biography of the featured mathematician, clearly explaining the significance of the result, followed by the full proof of the work, reproduced from the original publication, many in new translations.

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780141018782
Number of pages: 1184
Weight: 798 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 50 mm

Stephen Hawking

A world renowned physicist, intellectual titan and a globally recognised luminary, Stephen Hawking transformed the face of popular science publishing with his succinct, entertaining and brilliantly lucid account of our relationship with the universe’, his major work, A Brief History of Time. He is also the author of works including The Illustrated Brief History of Time and The Universe in a Nutshell.

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