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  The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan

  by Robert Kanigel

  A biography of the Ramanujan describes how the natural genius of an unschooled Indian clerk came to the attention of a preeminent mathematician and the world. Reprint.
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  A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash

  by Sylvia Nasar

  How could you, a mathematician, believe that extraterrestrials were sending you messages?" the visitor from Harvard asked the West Virginian with the movie-star looks and Olympian manner. "Because the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way my mathematical ideas did," came the answer. "So I took them seriously." Thus begins the true story of John Nash, the mathematical genius who... (more)
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  The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth

  by Paul Hoffman

  Based on a National Magazine Award-winning article, this masterful biography of Hungarian-born Paul Erdos is both a vivid portrait of an eccentric genius and a layman's guide to some of this century's most startling mathematical discoveries.
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  MY BRAIN IS OPEN: The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdos

  by Bruce Schechter

  Paul Erdõs, one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century, and certainly the most eccentric, was internationally recognized as a prodigy by age seventeen. Hungarian-born Erdõs believed that the meaning of life was to prove and conjecture. His work in the United States and all over the world has earned him the titles of the century's leading number theorist and the most prolific mathematician who ever... (more)
• Men of Mathematics Volume 2E T Bell

  

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  Men of Mathematics Volume 2

  by E T Bell

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  Angles of Reflection : Logic and a Mother's Love

  by Joan L. Richards

  At the time her nine-year-old son was diagnosed with a brain tumor, Joan Richards was deeply involved in writing a book about the life and work of the nineteenth-century mathematician Augustus De Morgan. Immersed in this abstract, logical world of science, Richards was forced by her son's sudden illness to confront a different kind of reality--the irrational world of a serious family illness and its consequences.... (more)
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  PAUL HALMOS Celebrating 50 Years of Mathematics

  by P. R. Halmos

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  Abel's Proof: An Essay on the Sources and Meaning of Mathematical Unsolvability

  by Peter Pesic

  In 1824 a young Norwegian named Niels Henrik Abel proved conclusively that algebraic equations of the fifth order are not solvable in radicals. In this book Peter Pesic shows what an important event this was in the history of thought. He also presents it as a remarkable human story. Abel was twenty-one when he self-published his proof, and he died five years later, poor and depressed, just before the proof started... (more)
• More Mathematical People Contemporary ConversationsDonald J. Albers, Gerald L. Alexanderson

  

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  More Mathematical People Contemporary Conversations

  by Donald J. Albers, Gerald L. Alexanderson

  The 18 eminent mathematicians profiled in these engaging, chatty interviews with the San Francisco Bay Area-based editors (Albers teaches math at Menlo College; Alexanderson teaches math at Santa Clara University; Reid is a freelance writer) show great variety in their personalities, backgrounds and outside interests. While some were near-prodigies, George Dantzig, "father of linear programming," almost flunked... (more)
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  Mathematical People

  by Donald J. Albers, Gerald L. Alexanderson

  This unique collection contains extensive and in-depth interviews with mathematicians who have shaped the field of mathematics in the twentieth century. Collected by two mathematicians respected in the community for their skill in communicating mathematical topics to a broader audience, the book is also rich with photographs and includes an introduction by Philip J. Davis.
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  by P. R. Halmos

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  Women in Mathematics: The Addition of Difference (Race, Gender and Science)

  by Claudia Henrion

  "... a wonderful addition to any mathematics teacher's professional bookshelf." -- The Mathematics Teacher "The individual biographies themselves make for enthralling, often inspiring, reading... this volume should be compelling reading for women mathematics students and professionals. A fine addition to the literature on women in science... Highly recommended." -- Choice "... it makes an important contribution... (more)
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  John Von Neumann : The Scientific Genius Who Pioneered the Modern Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear Deterrence, and Much More

  by Norman Macrae

  This volume is the reprinted edition of the first full-scale biography of the man widely regarded as the greatest scientist of the century after Einstein. Born in Budapest in 1903, John von Neumann grew up in one of the most extraordinary of scientific communities. From his arrival in America in the mid-1930s--with bases in Boston, Princeton, Washington, and Los Alamos--von Neumann pioneered and participated... (more)