Ioan James introduces and profiles sixty mathematicians from the era when mathematics was freed from its classical origins to develop into its modern form. The

In this accessible and illuminating study of how the science of mathematics developed, a veteran math researcher and educator looks at the ways in which our evo

Photographs accompanied by autobiographical text written by each mathematician.

This 2003 book contains portrayals of sixty mathematicians, which collectively convey how mathematics developed into its modern form.

A photographic exploration of mathematicians’ chalkboards “A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns,” wrote the British mathematici