Notable Mathematicians: A Bibliography


REF QA 28.N66 1998 Notable Mathematicians: From Ancient Times to the Present

Christianson, Gale E. In the Presence of the Creator: Isaac Newton and His Times. New York: Free Press, 1984.

Davis, Philip J. The Education of a Mathematician. Natick, Mass: A K Peters, 2000.

Heims, Steve J. John Von Neumann and Norbert Wiener: From Mathematics to the Technologies of Life and Death. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1980.

Hoffman, Paul;. The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth. New York: Hyperion, 1998.

Hollingdale, S.H. Makers of Mathematics. New York: penguin Books, 1989.

Hyman, Anthony. Charles Babbage, Pioneer of the Computer. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1982.

Kac, Mark. Enigmas of Chance: An Autobiography. New York: Harper & Row, 1985.

Nasar, Sylvia. A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. 

Reid, Constance. Neyman-From Life. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1982.

Schechter, Bruce. My Brain is Open: The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdos. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1998.

Simmons, George Finlay. Calculus Gems: Brief Lives and Memorable Mathematics. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1992.

Ulam, S.M. Adventures of a Mathematician. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.

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