| Description |
volumes <1-2> : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Vol. 1: Introduction and suggestions for teachers -- Introduction for students -- Pyramids, olives, and donkeys / Thales -- Teacher who paid his student / Pythagoras -- Man who concentrated too hard / Archimedes -- Woman of courage / Hypathia -- Magician or mathematician? / John Napier -- Seeing isn't believing / Galileo Galilei -- Count on Pascal / Blasie Pascal -- Short giant / Isaac Newton -- Blind man who could see / Leonhard Euler -- Professor who did not know / Joseph Louis Lagrange -- Mathematics at midnight / Sophie Germain -- Teacher who learned a lesson / Carl Friedrich Gauss -- "Don't let my life be wasted!" / Evariste Galois -- Life on an obstacle course / Emmy Noether -- Numbers were his greatest treasure / Srinivasa Ramanujan -- Resource list -- Vol. 2: Introduction and suggestions for teachers -- Introduction for students -- There's only one road / Euclid -- Fortune shared / Omar Khayyam -- Lean on the blockhead / Leonard of Pisa (Fibonacci) -- Conceited hypochondriac / Girolamo Cardano -- Stay-in-bed scholar / René Descartes -- Amateur becomes a prince / Pierre de Fermat -- Gift of sympathy / Maria Agnesi -- Shy sky watcher / Benjamin Banneker -- Computer's grandfather / Charles Babbage -- Mystery of X and Y / Mary Somerville -- Overlooked genius / Neils Abel -- Conducting the computer symphony / Ada Lovelace -- Lessons on the wall / Sonya Kovalevsky -- Compass points the way / Albert Einstein -- Master problem solver / George Pólya -- Resource list |
| Summary |
Stories about Thales - Pythagoras - Archimedes - Hypatia - John Napier - Galileo Galilei - Blause Pascal - Isaac Newton - Leonard Euler - Joseph Louis Lagrange - Sophie Germain - Carl Friedrich Gauss - Evariste Galois - Emmy Noether - Srinivasa Ramanujan |
| Analysis |
juvenile Nonfiction |
| Notes |
For children |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Mathematicians -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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Mathematics -- History -- Juvenile literature.
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Mathematicians.
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Mathematics -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Author |
Reimer, Wilbert, author
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| LC no. |
92241991 |
| ISBN |
0866515097 (v. 1) |
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0866518231 (v. 2) |
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