Significant figures. Life and discoveries of great mathematicians

Despite the mysterious origin of its individual elements, mathematics is not born in a vacuum: it is created by people. Some of these people demonstrate amazing originality and clarity of the mind. It is to them that we owe great breakthrough discoveries, it is they who call them pioneers, pioneers, significant figures of mathematics. Ian Stuart describes the discoveries and reveals before us the fate of 25 greatest mathematicians in history - from Archimedes to William Torston. Each of these amazing people from different parts of the world has made a decisive contribution to the development of its area of ​​mathematics. These living stories, each separately fascinating, are formed in the exciting history of mathematics