Men of Mathematics

Men of Mathematics
E.T. Bell

1. Introduction
2. Modern minds in ancient bodies-Zeno, Eudoxus, Archimedes
3. Gentleman, soldier, and mathematician-Descartes
4. The prince of amateurs-Fermat
5. 'Greatness and misery of man'-Pascal
6. On the seashore-Newton
7. Master of all trades-Leibniz
8. Nature of nurture?-The Bernoullis
9. Analysis incarnate-Euler
10. A lofty pyramid-Lagrange
11. From peasant to snob-Laplace
12. Friends of an emperor-Monge, Fourier
13. The day of glory-Poncelet
14. The prince of mathematicians-Gauss
15. Mathematics and windmills-Cauchy
16. The Copernicus of geometry-Lobatchewsky
17. Genius and poverty-Abel
18. The great algorist-Jacobi
19. An Irish tragedy-Hamilton
20. Genius and stupidity-Galois
21. Invariant twins-Sylvester, Cayley
22. Master and pupil-Weierstrass, Kowalewski
23. Complete independence-Boole
24. The man, not the method-Hermite
25. The doubter-Kronecker
26. Anima candida-Riemann
27. Arithmetic the second-Kummer, Dedekind
28. The last universalist-Poincaré
29. Paradise lost?-Cantor