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MATH 98 - SPRING 1999 PROJECT SOURCES Specific People: Check the index of biographies for information on the following people. The books listed are availabe from the library. Isaac Barrow (1630-1677) Before Newton : the life and times of Isaac Barrow, edited by Mordechai Feingold. Charles Babbage (1791-1871) Charles Babbage : Passages from the life of a philosopher, edited, with a new introduction by Martin Campbell-Kelly George Boole (1815-1864) George Boole, his life and work, by Desmond MacHale Evariste Galois (1811-1832) Evariste Galois (1811-1832), by Laura Toti Rigatelli Whom the gods love, the story of Evariste Galois, by Leopold Infeld Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) Carl Friedrich Gauss, a biography, by Tord. Hall Gauss: a biographical study, by W. K. Buhler Carl Friedrich Gauss, Titan of science, by Guy Waldo Dunnington Kurt Godel (1906-1978) Godel, Escher, Bach: an eternal golden braid, by Douglas R. Hofstadter Reflections on Kurt Godel, by Hao Wang Jacques Hadamard (1865-1963) Jacques Hadamard: a universal mathematician, by Vladimir Maz'ya and Tatyana Shaposhnikova David Hilbert (1862-1943) Hilbert: with an appreciation of Hilbert's mathematical work, by Hermann Weyl and Constance Reid Einstein, Holbert, and the theory of gravitation, by Jagdish Mehra Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850-1891) (many variations on the spelling) A Russian childhood, by Sofya Kovalevskaya Little Sparrow: a portrait of Sophia Kovalevsky, by Don H. Kennedy A convergence of lives: Sofia Kovalevskaia: scientist, writer, revolutionary, by Ann Hibner Koblitz Joseph Liouville (1809-1882) Joseph Liouville, 1809-1882, master of pure and applied mathematics, by Jesper Lutzen Augusta Ada King Countess of Lovelace (1815-1852) The calculating passion of Ada Byron, by Joan Baum Ada, the enchantress of numbers : a selection from the letters of Lord Byron's daughter and her description of the first computer, narrated and edited by Betty A. Toole Ada : a life and a legacy, by Dorothy Stein Emmy Noether (1882-1935) Emmy Noether, by Auguste Dick Giuseppe Peano (1858-1932) Peano, life and works of Giuseppe Peano, by Hubert C. Kennedy Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920) The Man Who Knew Infinity: a life of the genius, Ramanujan, by Robert Kanigel Ramanujan, the man and the mathematician, by S. R. Ranganathan Ramanujan: letters and commentary, by Srinivasa Ramanujan, with Bruce C. Berndt and Robert A. Rankin G. F. Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) Riemann, topology, and physics, by Michael Monastyrsky Abraham Robinson (1918-1974) Abraham Robinson : the creation of nonstandard analysis : a personal and mathematical odyssey, by Joseph Warren Dauben Julia Robinson (1919-1985) Julia, a life in mathematics, by Constance Reid Alan Turing (1912-1954) Alan Turing: the enigma, by Andrew Hodges John von Neumann (1903-1957) John von Neumann, by Norman Macrae John von Neumann and the origins of modern computing, by William Aspray John von Neumann and Norbert Wiener: from mathematics to the technologies of life and death, by Steve J. Hiems John von Neumann as seen by his brother, by Nicholas A. Vonneuman Andre Weil (1906-1998) The apprenticeship of a mathematician, by Andre Weil Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) Alfred North Whitehead : the man and his work, by Victor Lowe Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) Ex-prodigy: my childhood and youth, by Norbert Wiener I am a mathematician, the later life of a prodigy, by Norbert Wiener John von Neumann and Norbert Wiener: from mathematics to the technologies of life and death, by Steve J. Hiems back to top