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Informationen zum Autor Amir Alexander is a historian and writer in Los Angeles. Klappentext Alexander shows how popular stories about mathematicians are really morality tales about their craft as it relates to the world. In the eighteenth century, he says, mathematicians were idealized as child-like, eternally curious; by the nineteenth century, brilliant mathematicians became Romantic heroes like poets, artists, and musicians. Zusammenfassung Alexander shows how popular stories about mathematicians are really morality tales about their craft as it relates to the world. In the eighteenth century! he says! mathematicians were idealized as child-like! eternally curious; by the nineteenth century! brilliant mathematicians became Romantic heroes like poets! artists! and musicians. Inhaltsverzeichnis * Introduction: A Showdown in Paris * Part I: Natural Men * The Eternal Child * Natural Mathematics * Part II: Heroes and Martyrs * A Habit of Insult: The Short and Impertinent Life of Evariste Galois * The Exquisite Dance of the Blue Nymphs * A Martyr to Contempt * Part III: Romantic Mathematics * The Poetry of Mathematics * Purity and Rigor: The Birth of Modern Mathematics * Part IV: A New and Different World * The Gifted Swordsman * Conclusion: Portrait of a Mathematician * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index
