God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History
- Publisher : Penguin Random House
- Publishing year : September 2006
- Binding : Paperback
- ISBN : 9780141018782
- Imprint : Penguin Books
- Age Group : Young Adult
- Language : English
Edited by the famous physicist and bestselling author Stephen Hawking, God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakt ...
Edited by the famous physicist and bestselling author Stephen Hawking, God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History includes mathematical masterpieces from several world-renowned mathematical geniuses, including Euclid, Archimedes, Newton, Laplace and Cauchy.
The book is an anthology that explores 25 landmark discoveries of 15 mathematicians spanning a time period of 2500 years. Each of the famous works discussed has been grouped as per the corresponding mathematician and the entire text has been organized chronologically to simplify reading and better the understanding of readers.
STEPHEN HAWKING was a brilliant theoretical physicist, generally considered to have been one of the world's greatest thinkers. He was Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and is the author of A Brief History of Time which was an international bestseller. His other books for the general reader include A Briefer History of Time, the essay collection Black Holes and Baby Universe, The Universe in a Nutshell, and Brief Answers to the Big Questions.
He died on 14 March, 2018.
