Remarkable Mathematicians
From Euler to von Neumann

This 2003 book contains portrayals of sixty mathematicians, which collectively convey how mathematics developed into its modern form.

Ioan James (Author)

9780521520942, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 6 February 2003

448 pages
22.9 x 15.3 x 2.5 cm, 0.65 kg

'… will serve as an inspired contribution to the history of mathematics for a great many decades.' Kybernetes

Ioan James introduces and profiles sixty mathematicians from an era which saw mathematics freed from its classical origins to develop into its modern form. The characters, all born between 1700 and 1910, come from a wide range of countries, and all made an important contribution to mathematics, through their ideas, their teaching, their influence, and so on. The 2003 book is organised chronologically into ten chapters, each of which contains potted life stories of six mathematicians. The players James has chosen to portray are sufficiently representative that their stories, when read in sequence, convey in human terms something of the way in which mathematics developed.

Preface
1. From Euler to Legendre
2. From Fourier to Cauchy
3. From Abel to Grassmann
4. From Kummer to Cayley
5. From Hermite to Lie
6. From Cantor to Hilbert
7. From Moore to Takagi
8. From Hardy to Lefschetz
9. From Birkhoff to Alexander
10. From Banach to von Neumann
Epilogue
Further reading.

Subject Areas: History of science [PDX], Mathematics [PB]