Breakthroughs in Mathematics Author:Peter Wolff Breakthroughs in Mathematics spans 2,200 years of discovery as it presents excerpts from the work of nine famous men who spurred mathematical revolutions... together with the editor's incisive comments that place these unique contributions in their proper historical perspective. The nine mathematicians include are ... more »Euclid, Lobachevski, Descartes, Archimedes, Dedkind, Russell. Euler, Laplace and Boole.« less