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''Men of Mathematics: The Lives and Achievements of the Great Mathematicians from Zeno to Poincare'' is a book on the history of mathematics published in 1937 by Scottish-born American mathematician and science fiction writer E. T. Bell (1883-1960). After a brief chapter on three ancient mathematicians, it covers the lives of about forty mathematicians who flourished in the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries. The book is illustrated by mathematical discussions, with emphasis on mainstream mathematics. To keep the interest of readers, the book typically focuses on unusual or dramatic aspects of its subjects' lives. ''Men of Mathematics'' has inspired many young people, including the young John Forbes Nash Jr. and Freeman Dyson, to become mathematicians. It is not intended as a rigorous history, includes many anecdotal accounts, and presents a somewhat idealised picture of mathematicians, their personalities, research and controversies. ==Contents== *Zeno (fifth century BC), Eudoxus (408–355 BC), Archimedes (287?–212 BC) *Descartes (1596–1650) *Fermat (1601–1665) *Pascal (1623–1662) *Newton (1642–1727) *Leibniz (1646–1716) *The Bernoullis (17th and 18th century) *Euler (1707–1783) *Lagrange (1736–1813) *Laplace (1749 1827) *Monge (1746–1818), Fourier (1768–1830) *Poncelet (1788–1867) *Gauss (1777–1855) *Cauchy (1789–1857) *Lobachevsky (1793–1856) *Abel (1802–1829) *Jacobi (1804–1851) *Hamilton (1805–1865) *Galois (1811–1832) *Sylvester (1814–1897), Cayley (1821–1895) *Weierstrass (1815–1897), Sonja Kowalewski () (1850–1891) *Boole (1815–1864) *Hermite (1822–1901) *Kronecker (1823–1891) *Riemann (1826–1866) *Kummer (1810–1893), Dedekind (1831–1916) *Poincaré (1854–1912) *Cantor (1845–1918) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Men of Mathematics」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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