God Created the Integers
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Each chapter of the work focuses on a different mathematician and begins with a biographical overview. Within each chapter, Hawking examines the mathematician’s key discoveries, presents formal proofs of significant results, and explains their impact on the development of the mathematical field.
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:
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Selections from the works of Euler, Bolyai, Lobachevsky and Galois, which are included in the second edition of the book (published in 2007), were not included in the first edition.
Editions
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References
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- ↑ 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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