Portraits of eminent mathematicians: with biographical sketches by David Eugene Smith. Portfolio of 12 portraits. 25 × 35 cms New York, Scripta Mathematica, 1946. Price $5.00

✍ Scribed by G.E. Pettengill

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1947
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 79 KB
• Volume: 244
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(47)90071-9

✦ Synopsis

This collection of portraits of eminent mathmnaticians is well suited for either classroom or home use, and the plates are particularly adapted for framing. The men included are Archimedes, Copernicus, Viete, Galileo, Napier, Descartes, Newton, Leibniz, Lagrange, Gauss, Lobachevsky, and Sylvester. Each reproduction has been taken from a life portrait and may be considered a faithful delineation of the subject. A short biographical sketch with other illustrative material accompaniesteach portrait. Originally issued in 1936, the portfolio may be judged by the necessity for this reprinting.

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