Ian Stewart - Significant Figures: The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians

Category: Autobiography & Biographies, Misc. Non-fiction
Language: English
Keywords: History Biography Science Mathematics

Written by Significant Figures: The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians
Read by Roger Clark
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Significant Figures: The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians
By Ian Stewart
Narrated by Roger Clark

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Release date: 09-12-17
Language: English
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Categories: Biographies & Memoirs
ISBN: 9781541480056

About this listen

In Significant Figures, acclaimed mathematician Ian Stewart introduces the visionaries of mathematics throughout history. Delving into the lives of 25 great mathematicians, Stewart examines the roles they played in creating, inventing, and discovering the mathematics we use today. Through these short biographies, we get acquainted with the history of mathematics from Archimedes to Benoit Mandelbrot, and learn about those too often left out of the cannon, such as Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (c. 780-850), the creator of algebra, and Augusta Ada King (1815-1852), Countess of Lovelace, the world’s first computer programmer.

Tracing the evolution of mathematics over the course of two millennia, Significant Figures will educate and delight aspiring mathematicians and experts alike.

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Critic reviews

“By showing how even mathematical geniuses face all-too-human challenges, Stewart offers a riveting chronicle of one of humankind’s loftiest endeavors.” (Paul Halpern, author of The Quantum Labyrinth)

Ian Stewart is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of Warwick and the author of the bestseller Professor Stewart’s Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities. His recent books include Do Dice Play God?, Significant Figures, Professor Stewart’s Incredible Numbers, Seventeen Equations that Changed the World, Professor Stewart’s Casebook of Mathematical Mysteries and Calculating the Cosmos. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society.