God Created the Integers
ISBN 9780762419227 (first edition) | 9780762430048 (second edition) | |
| Preceded by | A Briefer History of Time | |
|---|---|---|
| Followed by | The Grand Design | |
God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History is a 2005 anthology, edited by Stephen Hawking, of "excerpts from thirty-one of the most important works in the history of mathematics."[1]
The title of the book is a reference to a quotation attributed to mathematician Leopold Kronecker, who once wrote that "God made the integers; all else is the work of man."[2]
Content
The works are grouped by author and ordered chronologically. Each section is prefaced by notes on the mathematician's life and work. The anthology includes works by the following mathematicians:
- Euclid
- Archimedes
- Diophantus
- René Descartes
- Isaac Newton
- Leonhard Euler
- Pierre-Simon Laplace
- Joseph Fourier
- Carl Friedrich Gauss
- Augustin-Louis Cauchy
- Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky
- János Bolyai
- Évariste Galois
- George Boole
- Bernhard Riemann
- Karl Weierstrass
- Richard Dedekind
- Georg Cantor
- Henri Lebesgue
- Kurt Gödel
- Alan Turing
Selections from the works of
Editions
- ISBN 0-7624-1922-9.
References
- ^ Stephen Hawking, 2005. God Created the Integers. p. xi.
- ^ Eric Temple Bell, 1986. Men of Mathematics, Simon and Schuster, New York. p. 477
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