Makers of Mathematics

Makers of MathematicsFascinating 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

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In only two or three instances does the solution assume anything more than a knowledge of theorems of elementary mathematics

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Considerations of white noise and white-noise integrals are followed by examinations of stochastic integrals and stochastic differential equations

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