Masters of Mathematics: The Problems They Solved, Why These Are Important, and What You Should Know about Them

✍ Scribed by Robert A. Nowlan (auth.)

• Publisher: SensePublishers
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 623
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Mathematics as a Labor-Saving Device....Pages 1-17
All About ‘e’ (Well, Almost All)....Pages 19-34
What Else Did Euler Do?....Pages 35-49
No Mathematical Work is Ever Wasted....Pages 51-67
I Have Never Done Anything Like Others....Pages 69-95
Doing the Impossible....Pages 97-114
“Mathematics is a Genderless World” – Karen Uhlenbeck....Pages 115-125
The Reluctant Mathematician....Pages 127-141
Programmer....Pages 143-159
Rabbits & Patterns....Pages 161-177
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers....Pages 179-190
A Short History of π....Pages 191-202
Measure by Measure (Length)....Pages 203-215
Large and Small....Pages 217-225
And, Yet it Moves....Pages 229-239
Measure and Measurement Reprise (Area and Perimeter, the Metric System)....Pages 241-261
Logical Nonsense....Pages 263-268
Map Coloring....Pages 289-300
Pearl....Pages 301-319
A Sad Tale....Pages 321-332
Streaker....Pages 333-345
Puzzlers....Pages 347-361
Doubter....Pages 363-377
Prospero....Pages 379-392
Islamic Golden Age and Beyond....Pages 393-413
No Saint....Pages 415-427
Everything has Causes....Pages 429-436
Sable Genius and Creating Washington D.C.....Pages 437-464
Paradox....Pages 465-480
Mathematical Adam....Pages 481-497
Gematria/Numerology....Pages 499-512
Computer Pioneer....Pages 513-525
Nurse....Pages 527-544
Magic Squares and Art....Pages 545-566
Logic and Diagrams....Pages 567-585
Master and Student....Pages 587-598
Proof....Pages 599-619

✦ Subjects

Education, general