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<P>This compendium introduces readers to a brilliant group of mathematicians. The collection encompasses ancient sages, Renaissance geniuses, Enlightenment-era polymaths, nineteenth-century innovators, great minds of the twentieth century, and current leaders in the field. Also covered are the geniuses whose names are preserved in Fermats Last Theorem, Boolean algebra, and the Fibonacci sequence.</P>

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Front Cover.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Introduction.
1: Niels Henrik Abel.
2: Apollonius of Perga.
3: Archimedes.
4: Aryabhata I.
5: Michael Francis Atiyah.
6: Charles Babbage.
7: Benjamin Banneker.
8: Isaac Barrow.
9: Bhaskara I.
10: Bhaskara II.
11: George David Birkhoff.
12: George Boole.
13: Satyendra Nath Bose.
14: Nathaniel Bowditch.
15: Brahmagupta.
16: Henry Briggs.
17: Georg Cantor.
18: Jerome Cardan.
19: Augustin-Louis Cauchy.
20: Bonaventura Cavalieri.
21: Gabrielle-&#x00C9;milie Ch&#x00E2;telet.
22: Richard Courant.
23: August Leopold Crelle.
24: Jean le Rond d&#x0027;Alembert.
25: Pierre Ren&#x00E9; Deligne.
26: Girard Desargues.
27: Ren&#x00E9; Descartes.
28: Diophantus of Alexandria.
29: Paul Erd&#x0151;s.
30: Euclid.
31: Leonhard Euler.
32: Pierre de Fermat.
33: Leonardo Fibonacci.
34: Joseph Fourier.
35: Gottlob Frege.
36: &#x00C9;variste Galois.
37: Carl Friedrich Gauss.
38: Sophie Germain.
39: Kurt G&#x00F6;del.
40: George Green.
41: Alexandre Grothendieck.
42: Edmund Gunter.
43: John Hadley.
44: Chester Moor Hall.
45: William Rowan Hamilton.
46: Thomas Harriot.
47: Heron of Alexandria.
48: David Hilbert.
49: Fred Hoyle.
50: Christiaan Huygens.
51: Hypatia.
52: Carl Jacobi.
53: Al-Khwarizmi.
54: Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov.
55: Joseph-Louis Lagrange.
56: Pierre-Simon Laplace.
57: Adrien-Marie Legendre.
58: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
59: Sophus Lie.
60: Liu Hui.
61: Nikolay Ivanovich Lobachevsky.
62: Colin Maclaurin.
63: Benoit Mandelbrot.
64: Marin Mersenne.
65: Hermann Minkowski.
66: Gaspard Monge.
67: John Napier.
68: John F. Nash, Jr..
69: John von Neumann.
70: Isaac Newton.
71: Jerzy Neyman.
72: Emmy Noether.
73: Hermann Oberth.
74: Omar Khayy&#x00E1;m.
75: Luca Pacioli.
76: Pappus of Alexandria.
77: Blaise Pascal.
78: Karl Pearson.
79: Roger Penrose.
80: Henri Poincar&#x00E9;.
81: Pythagoras.
82: Srinivasa Ramanujan.
83: Bernhard Riemann.
84: Gilles Personne de Roberval.
85: Bertrand Russell.
86: Jean-Pierre Serre.
87: Isadore Manuel Singer.
88: Jakob Steiner.
89: Niccol&#x00F2; Tartaglia.
90: John Tate.
91: Evangelista Torricelli.
92: Alan Turing.
93: S.R. Srinivasa Varadhan.
94: Fran&#x00E7;ois Vi&#x00E8;te.
95: John Wallis.
96: Karl Weierstrass.
97: Andr&#x00E9; Weil.
98: Hermann Weyl.
99: Alfred North Whitehead.
100: Norbert Wiener.
101: Andrew Wiles.
Glossary.
Index.
Front Cover.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Introduction.
1: Niels Henrik Abel.
2: Apollonius of Perga.
3: Archimedes.
4: Aryabhata I.
5: Michael Francis Atiyah.
6: Charles Babbage.
7: Benjamin Banneker.
8: Isaac Barrow.
9: Bhaskara I.
10: Bhaskara II.
11: George David Birkhoff.
12: George Boole.
13: Satyendra Nath Bose.
14: Nathaniel Bowditch.
15: Brahmagupta.
16: Henry Briggs.
17: Georg Cantor.
18: Jerome Cardan.
19: Augustin-Louis Cauchy.
20: Bonaventura Cavalieri.
21: Gabrielle-&#x00C9;milie Ch&#x00E2;telet.
22: Richard Courant.
23: August Leopold Crelle.
24: Jean le Rond d&#x0027;Alembert.
25: Pierre Ren&#x00E9; Deligne.
26: Girard Desargues.
27: Ren&#x00E9; Descartes.
28: Diophantus of Alexandria.
29: Paul Erd&#x0151;s.
30: Euclid.
31: Leonhard Euler.
32: Pierre de Fermat.
33: Leonardo Fibonacci.
34: Joseph Fourier.
35: Gottlob Frege.
36: &#x00C9;variste Galois.
37: Carl Friedrich Gauss.
38: Sophie Germain.
39: Kurt G&#x00F6;del.
40: George Green.
41: Alexandre Grothendieck.
42: Edmund Gunter.
43: John Hadley.
44: Chester Moor Hall.
45: William Rowan Hamilton.
46: Thomas Harriot.
47: Heron of Alexandria.
48: David Hilbert.
49: Fred Hoyle.
50: Christiaan Huygens.
51: Hypatia.
52: Carl Jacobi.
53: Al-Khwarizmi.
54: Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov.
55: Joseph-Louis Lagrange.
56: Pierre-Simon Laplace.
57: Adrien-Marie Legendre.
58: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
59: Sophus Lie.
60: Liu Hui.
61: Nikolay Ivanovich Lobachevsky.
62: Colin Maclaurin.
63: Benoit Mandelbrot.
64: Marin Mersenne.
65: Hermann Minkowski.
66: Gaspard Monge.
67: John Napier.
68: John F. Nash, Jr..
69: John von Neumann.
70: Isaac Newton.
71: Jerzy Neyman.
72: Emmy Noether.
73: Hermann Oberth.
74: Omar Khayy&#x00E1;m.
75: Luca Pacioli.
76: Pappus of Alexandria.
77: Blaise Pascal.
78: Karl Pearson.
79: Roger Penrose.
80: Henri Poincar&#x00E9;.
81: Pythagoras.
82: Srinivasa Ramanujan.
83: Bernhard Riemann.
84: Gilles Personne de Roberval.
85: Bertrand Russell.
86: Jean-Pierre Serre.
87: Isadore Manuel Singer.
88: Jakob Steiner.
89: Niccol&#x00F2; Tartaglia.
90: John Tate.
91: Evangelista Torricelli.
92: Alan Turing.
93: S.R. Srinivasa Varadhan.
94: Fran&#x00E7;ois Vi&#x00E8;te.
95: John Wallis.
96: Karl Weierstrass.
97: Andr&#x00E9; Weil.
98: Hermann Weyl.
99: Alfred North Whitehead.
100: Norbert Wiener.
101: Andrew Wiles.
Glossary.
Index.

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