Makers of Mathematics His observations on figure drawing

His observations on figure drawing range from the portrayal of forms in action and at rest to draped effects

added to this second edition

1 in C Major from Book I of The Well-Tempered Clavier

calculus on vector spaces

Makers of Mathematics His observations on figure drawingFascinating and highly readable, this book recounts the history of mathematics as revealed in the lives and writings of the most distinguished practitioners of the art: Archimedes, Descartes, Fermat, Pascal, Newton, Leibniz, Euler, Gauss, Hamilton, Einstein, and many more. Author Stuart Hollingdale introduces and explains the roles of these gifted and often colorful figures in the development of mathematics as well as the ways in which their work