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Is #mathematics a boring subject? No, certainly not, if it was so then, maths would have not been subject ruling the universe.
It is evidently known that every physical and universal law, cease to exist in a mathematical formulation. Hence mathematics becomes the language of universe.
If science is the kingdom, ruling the modern men then mathematics is queen of that kingdom and mathematicians are the princes there in.
Thus, who are the man empowering mathematics? In short Men behind mathematics.
It has a glorious #history of more than twenty five hundred years with exciting tales of truth and hyper truth, murder and mystery, war and worship, eureka and tragedy, puzzles and paradoxes, disputes and divinity, problems and pride above all its a story of beauty and belief that engaged the minds of thousands for centuries.
In this video I am going to tell you about some #books which are very good at portraying the essence of thoughts and lives of the geniuses, which will illuminate and entertain you with tales of, brotherhood of Pythagoras, super humanness of Gauss, dispute of calculus, the lost paradise of Cantor, saving people in wars and winning of Britain in world war second with help of Turing Machine etc.
There is also a beautiful movie on Turing machine namely Imitation Game, on life of Alan Turing
The first and foremost text in the philosophy of mathematics is
“Men of Mathematics” by Prof. E. T. Bell
It is a journey of unusual life and philosophy of almost all mathematicians since 500 B.C. to 20th century era. This is an extraordinary book about tracing the majestic development of mathematical thought.
This is my first recommendation.
Second one with unique title is “A Strange Wilderness" by Prof. Amir D. Aczel
Title of book is completely justified with tales in book. Like Archemedes famously ran naked through the streets shouting, Eureka! Eureka! And many more such tales.
Aczel’s passion for mathematics and interest in the people who make it, shine through every page of this book. This book also have some photographs having special mark in history of mathematics will certainly leave you entertained and enlightened.
This books also mentions some great indian mathematician like Aryabhatta, brahmagupta and Ramanujan.
Third in the series is, “God Created the Integers”
Interestingly title of this books is a famous saying by Kronickor, that “God created the integer and rest is work of man.” Because it is beyond the human capability to design such a sequence of integer with their entwined properties.
This book is edited with commentary by Stephen Hawking. It is the collection of Hawkings personal choice of greatest mathematician and mathematical breakthrough in the history with some original work and proof.
So, to fully understand this book, you need some mathematical background, although a general reader may skip the mathematical work and detailing in the book.
Without much detailing, Other two in the list are
“What is Mathematics” And “Mathematics and Its History”
So, these five books will complete your quest in searching the biographies of greatest mathematician and some of humanity’s greatest achievement.
It is my personal belief that reading these books will certainly provoke interest in mathematics.
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These books include the #biographies of
#Thales of Miletus ( 6th BC)
#Zeno (5th B.C.)
#Pythagoras ( 5th B.C)
#Eudoxus (408355 B.C.)
Plato (4th B. C.)
#Euclid (325265 B.C.)
#Arichimedes (287212 B.C.)
#Diophantus ( 3rd AD)
#Aryabhatta (476550)
#Bramhagupta (598 668)
#AlKhwarizmi (9th CE)
#Omar Khayam (10481123)
#Fibonacci (11701250)
#Al Kashi ( 13801429)
#Luca Pacioli (14451517)
#Tartolgia (15001559)
#Girolamo #Cardano (15011576)
#Francois Viete (15401603)
#Johm #Napier (15501617)
#Johannes #Kepler (15711630)
#Galileo Galilei (15641642)
#Marin Mersenne (15881648)
#Rene #Decartes (15961650)
#Fermat (16011665)
#Pascal (16231662)
#Isaac #Newton (16421727)
#Gottfried #Leibniz (16461706)
The #Bernoullis Family (17th and 18th Centuries)
#Euler (17071783)
#Langrange (17361813)
Pierre Simon De #Laplace (17491827)
Gaspard #Monge (17461818)
Jean Baptiste Joseph #Fourier (17681830)
Poncelet (17881867)
Carl Friedrich #Gauss (17771855)
Augustin Louis #Cauchy (17891857)
#Lobatchewsky (17931856)
Niels Henrik #Abel (18021829)
#Jacobi (18041851)
William Rowan #Hamilton (18051865)
Evariste #Galois (18111865)
Joseph #Sylvester (18141897)
#Caylay (18211895)
Karl #Weierstrass (18151897)
Sonja Kowalsewski (18501891)
#George #Boole (18151901)
#Hermite (18221901)
Leopold #Kronecker (18231891)
G. Friedrich Bernhard #Riemann (18261866)
#Kummer (18101893)
Richards Julius Wilhelm #Dedekind (18311916)
Henri #Poincare (18541912)
George #Cantor (18451918)
Felix #Klein (18491925)
Henry #Lebesgue (18751941)
Emmy #Noether (18821935)
Srinivasan #Ramanujan (18871920)
Kurt #Godel (19061978)
Alan Mathison #Turing (19121954)
...and so on…