Men of Mathematics 1+2

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
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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-Poincare
29. Paradise lost?-Cantor