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God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs that Changed History

by · 2005

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Including 25 landmark discoveries spanning 2500 years and representing the work of 15 mathematicians such as Augustin Cauchy, Bernard Riemann and Alan Turing, the title allows the reader to peer into the mind of genius by providing excerpts from original mathematical proofs and results.

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epic · 1048 pages

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