Book Title: Great Mathematicians /P
ISBN: 9781788886949
By Author(s):RAYMOND FLOOD
By Publisher:ARCTURUS
Format:PB
From Thales and Pythagoras in ancient Greece to Grigori Perelmanâ€s solution to the Poincaré Conjecture in 2003, this accessible survey of mathematics and mathematicians explains their achievements in historical context and in terms of their application to everyday life, whether Archimedes†invention of the screw for raising water, Huygens†pendulum clocks, or the Turing test and AI.