Taming the Infinite by Ian Stewart

Taming the Infinite

Ian Stewart

288 pages first pub 2007 (view editions)

nonfiction history mathematics science informative lighthearted slow-paced
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Maintaining a personal touch, he introduces all of the outstanding mathematicians of history, from the key Babylonians, Greeks and Egyptians, via Newton and Descartes, to Fermat, Babbage and Godel, and demystifies math's key concepts without recou...

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