Mentes maravillosas : Los matemáticos que cambiaron el mundo

The exposed lives of the most brilliant people who changed the course of mathematics. Which mathematician developed a crucial concept the night before he was killed in a duel? Who financed his studies in mathematics and medicine through the game and chess? Who learned mathematics from the wallpaper on their wall? Ian Stewart presents the extraordinary lives and surprising discoveries of twenty-five of history's greatest mathematicians—from Archimedes and Liu Hui to Mandelbrot and Thurston who played an important role in creating the mathematics we use today. This striking gallery encompasses lesser-known geniuses such as Srinivasa Ramanujan and Emmy Noether, alongside the towering figures of Muhamad al-Juarismi (inventor of the algorithm), Fermat, Newton, Gauss, Lobachevsky, Riemann (forerunner of Einstein), Poincaré, Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (possibly the first computer programmer), Gödel and Turing. Each of these twenty-five great mathematicians is fascinating in their own right, and taken together, they chart the evolution of mathematics over the course of two millennia in a dazzling story.