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Leonardo
Leonardo

by Leonardo da Vinci, Kunster

If anyone fits the description 'Renaissance man' it is Leonardo da Vinci.

1946 89 ed.
Zero
Zero

by Charles Seife

The story of zero is an ancient one.

2000 16 ed.
A Beautiful Mind
A Beautiful Mind

by Sylvia Nasar

AMONG JOHN NASH'S EARLIEST MEMORIES is one in which, as a child of about two or three, he is listening to his maternal g...

1998 35 ed.
Starry Messenger
Starry Messenger

by Peter Sís

For hundreds of years, most people thought the earth was the center of the universe, and the sun and the moon and all th...

1996 12 ed.
Men of mathematics
Men of mathematics

by Eric Temple Bell

THIS SECTION IS HEADED Introduction rather than Preface (which it really is) in the hope of decoying habitual preface-sk...

1900 25 ed.
Adventures of a mathematician
Adventures of a mathematician

by Stanislaw M. Ulam

MY father, Jozef Ulam, was a lawyer.

1976 5 ed.