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Hilbert

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  • "David Hilbert and his mathematical work"

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  • "If the life of any 20th century mathematician can be said to be a history of mathematics in his time, it is that of David Hilbert. To the enchanted young mathematicians and physicists who flocked to study with him in Gottingen before and between the World Wars, he seemed mathematics personified, the very air around him "scientifically electric." His remarkably prescient proposal in 1900 of twenty-three problems for the coming century set the course of much subsequent mathematics and remains a feat that no scientist in any field has been able to duplicate. When he died, Nature remarked that there was scarcely a mathematician in the world whose work did not derive from that of Hilbert. Constance Reid's classic biography is a moving, nontechnical account of the passionate scientific life of this man - from the early days in Konigsberg, when his revolutionary work was dismissed as "theology," to the golden years in Gottingen before Hitler came to power and within a few months destroyed the entire Hilbert school. The Copernicus paperback edition makes this book available to new generations of mathematicians who know the name Hilbert, which is everywhere in mathematics, but do not know the man."
  • "Now in new trade paper editions, these classic biographies of two of the greatest 20th Century mathematicians are being released under the Copernicus imprint. These noteworthy accounts of the lives of David Hilbert and Richard Courant are closely related: Courant's story is, in many ways, seen as the sequel to the story of Hilbert. Originally published to great acclaim, both books explore the dramatic scientific history expressed in the lives of these two great scientists and described in the lively, nontechnical writing style of Contance Reid."

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  • "Biografieën (vorm)"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Biography"@en
  • "Biography"
  • "Biographies"
  • "Biographie"

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  • "Hilbert"
  • "Hilbert"@en
  • "Гильберт"
  • "Hilbert ; with an appreciation of Hilbert's mathematical by Hermann Weyl"@en
  • "Gil'bert : s priloženiem obzora Germana Vejlâ matematičeskih trudov Gil'berta"
  • "Hilbert : with an appreciation of Hilbert's mathematical workmathematical work by Hermann Weyl"
  • "Hilbert : With an appreciation of Hilbert's mathematical work by Hermann Weyl"
  • "Xi'erbote"
  • "Hilbert : with an appreciation of Hilbert's mathematical work by Hermann Weyl"@en
  • "Hilbert : with an appreciation of Hilbert's mathematical work by Hermann Weyl"
  • "希尔伯特"
  • "O proklētikos kos Chilmpert : to parelthon kai to mellon tōn mathēmatikōn"
  • "Hilbert : to the memory of Otto Blumenthal"
  • "希爾伯特"
  • "Hilbert. with an appreciation of Hilbert's mathematical work by Hermann Weyl / Constance Reid"
  • "Gilʹbert"
  • "Hilbert : with an appreciation of Hilbert's mathematical work"
  • "Hilbert : with an appreciation of Hilbert's mathematical work"@en
  • "Hilbert : With an appreciation of Hilbert's mathematical work by Henmann Weyl"
  • "Gil'bert"

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