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Infinite Ascent : A Short History of Mathematics

• Title - Infinite Ascent : A Short History of Mathematics
  • Author - David Berlinski
  • Category - nonfiction
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  • Queue status - completed

• David Berlinski

Review

Try any of the following instead of this :

1. The Equation that Couldn't be Solved - Galois and the development of group theory
2. Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity - mostly about Cantor and set theory, but plenty of excursions into the history of analysis
3. Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics - the Riemann zeta function, number theory, and post-Riemann mathematics
4. The Road to Reality - see the first 13 chapters for an excellent introduction to the mathematics needed for modern physics.