God Created the Integers

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God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History
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Cover of the first edition
Author Stephen Hawking
Language English
Publisher Running Press
Publication date
2005
Pages 1176
ISBN 9780762419227
Preceded by A Briefer History of Time
Followed by The Grand Design

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."[1] 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."[2] 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:

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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.

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References

  1. Stephen Hawking, 2005. God Created the Integers p xi
  2. Eric Temple Bell, 1986. Men of Mathematics, Simon and Schuster, New York. p. 477