God Created the Integers

The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History

Hardcover, 1160 pages

English language

Published Oct. 4, 2005 by Running Press Book Publishers.

ISBN:
978-0-7624-1922-7
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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."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 editions

Subjects

  • History of mathematics
  • Popular science
  • Science/Mathematics
  • Mathematics
  • History & Philosophy
  • Logic
  • Biography
  • History
  • Mathematicians