An edition of The world of mathematics (1956)
The world of mathematics
a small library of the literature of mathematics from Aʻh-mosé the scribe to Albert Einstein
By James Roy Newman
Publish Date
1956
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Language
eng
Pages
2535
Description:
I found this book (again) after reading an excerpt written by H. L. Gold, who describes this book: > All this and much more I got from an overwhelming kind of book published by Simon & Schuster. The name of it is *The World of Mathematics* and it comes in four volumes, boxed, more that 2,500 stunning pages. Besides chapters on every sort of math proper, there are biographies of the greatest mathematicians, from Ah-mosé, the Egyptian scribe, to the present day - the flyleaf of the book says "To Einstein," but it goes beyond him. > If time travel existed, I can think of few worthier, or more predictably successful uses, than to send this book back half a century to the lonely, unloved genius of Madras. The world would benefit beyond imagination...