Product Description: Although the Fields Medal does not have the same public recognition as the Nobel Prizes, they share a similar intellectual standing. It is restricted to one field that of mathematics. The medal is awarded to the best mathematicians who are 40 or younger, every four years...read more

Product Description: This title includes biographies of great mathematician such as Euclid, Pythagoras,and Descartes. The essays in this set were selected from Salem's Great Lives from Historyseries.

In this book, you'll learn why Florence Nightingale introduced pie charts, how Lewis Carroll regarded Pythagoras's theorem, and why some infinities are larger than others. In addition to such well-known figures as Archimedes and Isaac Newton, you'll also meet the mathematician who knew eight languages by the time he was 11, the one who was sent to jail for gambling, the ones who wrote a book on why 1 + 1 = 2, the one who spent his entire life traveling the world, and the one who published a lot but never existed.

Product Description: Mathematicians is a remarkable collection of ninety-two photographic portraits, featuring some of the most amazing mathematicians of our time. Acclaimed photographer Mariana Cook captures the exuberant and colorful personalities of these brilliant thinkers and the superb images are accompanied by brief autobiographical texts written by each mathematician...read more

Product Description: HPLC stands for high pressure (or performance) liquid chromatography, and is a standard biochemical technique for separating molecules. This volume covers the larger biomolecules--oligosaccharides, glycopeptides, oligonucleotides, polypeptides, and proteins--and includes the latest advances in microbore and packed capillary technology, and in the use of mass spectrometric detection...read more