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4.1/5 AbeBooks Pages 1176 Originally published 4 October 2005 Editor Stephen Hawking Publisher Running Press | 4.1/5 Goodreads Language English Followed by The Grand Design Page count 1,176 Preceded by A Briefer History of Time | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Publication date 2005 (first edition)
2007 (second edition) ISBN 9780762419227 (first edition)
9780762430048 (second edition) Similar Works by Stephen Hawking, Mathematics books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History is an anthology, edited by Stephen Hawking, of "excerpts from thirty-one of the most important works in the history of mathematics."
Contents
The title of the book is a reference to a quotation attributed to mathematician Leopold Kronecker, who once wrote that "God made the integers; all else is the work of man."
Content
The works are grouped by author and ordered chronologically. Each section is prefaced by notes on the mathematician's life and work. The anthology includes works by the following mathematicians:
Selections from the works of Euler, Bolyai, Lobachevsky and Galois, which are included in the second edition of the book (published in 2007), were not included in the first edition.