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2005 anthology by Stephen Hawking From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History is a 2005 anthology, edited by Stephen Hawking, of "excerpts from thirty-one of the most important works in the history of mathematics."[1]
Author | Stephen Hawking |
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Language | English |
Subject | Mathematics |
Publisher | Running Press |
Publication date | 2005 (first edition) 2007 (second edition) |
Media type | |
Pages | 1176 |
ISBN | 9780762419227 (first edition) 9780762430048 (second edition) |
Preceded by | A Briefer History of Time |
Followed by | The Grand Design |
The title of the book is a reference to a quotation attributed to mathematician Leopold Kronecker, who once wrote that "God made the integers; all else is the work of man."[2]
The works are grouped by author and ordered chronologically. Each section is prefaced by notes on the mathematician's life and work. The anthology includes works by the following mathematicians:
Selections from the works of Euler, Bolyai, Lobachevsky and Galois, which are included in the second edition of the book (published in 2007), were not included in the first edition.
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