God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History
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GOD CREATED THE INTEGERS is Stephen Hawking’s personal choice of the greatest mathematical works in history. He allows the reader to peer into the mind of genius by providing us with excerpts from original mathematical proofs and results. He also helps us understand the progression of mathematical thought, and the very foundations of our presentday technologies. The book includes landmark discoveries spanning 2500 years and representing the work of mathematicians such as Euclid, Georg Cantor, Kurt Godel, Augustin Cauchy, Bernard Riemann and Alan Turing. Each chapter begins with a biography of the featured mathematician, clearly explaining the significance of the result, followed by the full proof of the work, reproduced from the original publication, many in new translations.

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Weight 0.798 kg
Dimensions 5 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Paperback
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Pages

1184
Publisher

Year Published

2006-9-7
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Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

014101878X
About The Author

Stephen Hawking is a theoretical physicist and, like Sir Isaac Newton before him, a Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge. He is the author of the bestselling A Brief History of Time, which remained on the New York Times bestseller list for a record-breaking 237 weeks. Curiously, Hawking was born 300 years to the day after Galileo died.

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