Largely unknown today, Bourbaki is likely the last mathematician to master nearly all aspects of the field. A consummate collaborator, he made fundamental contributions to important mathematical ...

From Aryabhata’s concept of zero and Euclid’s geometryto the principles that later powered modern computer science, mathematics has been shaped by thinkers across eras. This particular list focuses on ...

THIS little volume—one of a series devoted to the history of science—gives, in a very readable manner, an interesting narrative of some of the greatest representative mathematicians from the early ...