From Fermat to Minkowski - Lectures on the Theory of Numbers and its Historical Development - Paperback - 2010

Tracing the story from its earliest sources, this book celebrates the lives and work of pioneers of modern mathematics: Fermat, Euler, Lagrange, Legendre, Gauss, Fourier, Dirichlet and more. Includes an English translation of Gauss's 1838 letter to Dirichlet.
Year of publication: 2010
Pagination: 186 pages, biography
Format: Paperback
Serie: Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics