In the 1930s, a group of young French mathematicians led an uprising that revolutionized mathematics. France had lost most of a generation in the First World War, so the emerging hotshots in ...
THOMAS HARRIOT: A Life in Science. By Robyn Arianrhod. Oxford University Press. 352 pages. $29.95. Lost in the mists of history until comparatively recently was the Elizabethan- and Jacobean-era ...
In 1900, mathematician David Hilbert presented his colleagues with a list of problems he believed both captured the present state of mathematics and the shape of its future. This year, 125 years later ...
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