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title: "Significant Figures"
brand: "ian stewart"
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# Significant Figures

**Brand:** ian stewart
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- **What is this?** Significant Figures by ian stewart
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## Description

Significant Figures: The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians

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## Customer Reviews

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    Thoughts on Stewart's Significant Figures: Learning mathematical figures, through human ones; a great read for the science geek
  

*by M***N on Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2018*

I enjoyed Ian Stewart’s history of mathematics, entitled “Significant Figures: The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians”, which includes the biographies of some notable mathematicians. I found that this book had a great format, combining character insights into people, a history of a subject as well as a powerful approach to teach people about mathematical concepts and how they interconnect. I particularly liked the way Stewart was able to describe concepts such as Turing's insights into computation and Gödel’s insights into logic and link them together with their lives. I also enjoyed the way that he explained the construction of non-Euclidian geometries and how this, of course, is built one person on top of another.The book has lots of great character insights into why these individuals were so brilliant. I particularly liked the story of how Carl Gauss was able to quickly solve a simple addition problem -- summing up all the numbers from one to 100 very quickly -- that is easily grasped now but which clearly illuminates his brilliance as a young child.Overall, I would highly recommend this book to anyone. I think a little knowledge of mathematics is useful because some of the sections benefit from some understanding of calculus, group theory, &c.

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    I loved this book
  

*by L***E on Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2018*

I loved this book. When I read the "Men of Mathematics" I was extremely annoyed that Sonya was in there under that title. Even so I loved that book too, although I physically changed the title to People of Mathematics. This was wonderful too and covered women - and more than one. I have always found that the math or physics or computer science is understood more deeply if you see how it came about and was discovered.

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    and personalities of 25 great mathematicians throughout history
  

*by K***R on Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2018*

This was a very pleasant read. The author discusses the lives, work, and personalities of 25 great mathematicians throughout history, in chronological order.

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