Makers of Mathematics " — Literary Review

" — Literary Review

1 in C Major from Book I of The Well-Tempered Clavier

His observations on figure drawing range from the portrayal of forms in action and at rest to draped effects

Subsequent chapters explore minimal submanifolds

added to this second edition

Makers of Mathematics " — Literary ReviewFascinating and highly readable, this book recounts the history of mathematics as revealed in the lives and writings of the most distinguished practitioners of the art: Archimedes, Descartes, Fermat, Pascal, Newton, Leibniz, Euler, Gauss, Hamilton, Einstein, and many more. Author Stuart Hollingdale introduces and explains the roles of these gifted and often colorful figures in the development of mathematics as well as the ways in which their work