God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History - Brossura

Hawking, Stephen

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ISBN 10: 014101878X ISBN 13: 9780141018782

Casa editrice: Penguin, 2006

Riassunto

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.

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Informazioni sull'autore

STEPHEN HAWKING was a brilliant theoretical physicist, generally considered to have been one of the world's greatest thinkers. He was Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and is the author of A Brief History of Time which was an international bestseller. His other books for the general reader include A Briefer History of Time, the essay collection Black Holes and Baby Universe, The Universe in a Nutshell, and Brief Answers to the Big Questions.
He died on 14 March, 2018.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Penguin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 014101878X
• ISBN 13: 9780141018782
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 1184
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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