In 1913, a young, unschooled Indian clerk wrote a letter to G. H. Hardy, begging the preeminent mathematician's opinion on several ideas he had about numbers. It was the beginning of a collaboration with a true genius of the...
Mathematicians
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Author:Kanigel, RobertSummary: - Author:Clarke, Arthur C.Summary:
THE LAST THEOREM charts the story of Ranjit Subramanian, a man fascinated by Fermat's Last Theorem--so simple that anyone can understand it, yet not proved for more than three centuries. Ranjit learns about the Indian mathematical...
- Author:Ogawa, YōkoSummary:
Yoko Ogawa presents an original, beautifully written story about a brilliant man who must live with only eighty minutes of short-term memory and the astute young housekeeper who cares for him.
- Author:Chatagnier, EthanSummary:
In December 1960, Crystal Singer, her boyfriend Rick, and three other MIT grad students take a cross-country road trip from Boston to Arizona to paint a message in the desert. Mars has been silent for thirty years, since the last time...
- Author:Bardoe, CherylSummary:
The true story of eighteenth-century mathematician Sophie Germain, who solved the unsolvable to achieve her dream. When her parents took away her candles to keep their young daughter from studying math...nothing stopped Sophie. When a...
- Author:McCully, Emily ArnoldSummary:
This illuminating biography reveals how the daughter of Lord Byron, Britain's most infamous Romantic poet, became the world's first computer programmer. Even by 1800s standards, Ada Byron Lovelace had an unusual upbringing....
- Author:Robinson, FionaSummary:
Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) was the daughter of Lord Byron, a poet, and Anna Isabella Milbanke, a mathematician. Her parents separated when she was young, and her mother insisted on a logic-focused education, rejecting Byron's mad...
- Author:Slade, SuzanneSummary:
The inspiring true story of mathematician Katherine Johnson—made famous by the award-winning film Hidden Figures —who counted and computed her way to NASA and helped put a man on the moon! Katherine knew it was wrong that African...
