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Tables of Contents for Men of Mathematics
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
3
578
Modern Minds in Ancient Bodies
Zeno (fifth century B.C.), Eudoxus (408-355 B.C.), Archimedes (287?-212 B.C.)
19
16
Gentleman, Soldier, and Mathematician
Descartes (1596-1650)
35
21
The Prince of Amateurs
Fermat (1601-1665)
56
17
``Greatness and Misery of Man''
Pascal (1623-1662)
73
17
On the Seashore
Newton (1642-1727)
90
27
Master of All Trades
Leibniz (1646-1716)
117
14
Nature or Nurture?
The Bernoullis (seventeenth and eighteenth centuries)
131
8
Analysis Incarnate
Euler (1707-1783)
139
14
A Lofty Pyramid
Lagrange (1736-1813)
153
19
From Peasant to Snob
Laplace (1749-1827)
172
11
Friends of An Emperor
Monge (1746-1818), Fourier (1768-1830)
183
23
The Day of Glory
Poncelet (1788-1867)
206
12
The Prince of Mathematicians
Gauss (1777-1855)
218
52
Mathematics and Windmills
Cauchy (1789-1857)
270
24
The Copernicus of Geometry
Lobatchewsky (1793-1856)
294
13
Genius and Poverty
Abel (1802-1829)
307
20
The Great Algorist
Jacobi (1804-1851)
327
13
An Irish Tragedy
Hamilton (1805-1865)
340
22
Genius and Stupidity
Galois (1811-1832)
362
16
Invariant Twins
Sylvester (1814-1897); Cayley (1821-1895)
378
28
Master and Pupil
Weierstrass (1815-1897); Sonja Kowalewski (1850-1891)
406
27
Complete Independence
Boole (1815-1864)
433
15
The Man, not The Method
Hermite (1822-1901)
448
18
The Doubter
Kronecker (1823-1891)
466
18
Anima Candida
Riemann (1826-1866)
484
26
Arithmetic the Second
Kummer (1810-1893), Dedekind (1831-1916)
510
16
The Last Universalist
Poincare (1854-1912)
526
29
Paradise Lost?
Cantor (1845-1918)
555
26
Index
581