Includes biographies of great mathematician such as Euclid, Pythagoras, and Descartes. The essays in this set were selected from Salem's Great Lives from History series. An in-depth selection of articles from Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Society.

Each title in The Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Society Singles presents 60-70 articles showing the maths behind our daily lives, explaining to students how and why maths works, and allowing readers to better understand how disciplines such as algebra, geometry, calculus, and others affect what we do every day. This outstanding reference is appropriate for both high school and undergraduate programmes, making the content readily accessible to public library patrons as well.

The articles are written in clear language and presented in a uniform, easily readable format. Every article begins with standard, ready reference top matter which includes the category, fields of study (such as geometry, measurements, communication) and a brief summary. The heart of the essay discusses the interconnections of mathematics, including its meaning, history and usage. Every essay ends with a list of sources for further reading and see-also cross-references.

Great Mathematicians Table of Contents:

• Abel, Niels Henrik
• Agnesi, Maria Gaetana
• Alhazen
• Apollonius of Perga
• Archimedes
• Aryabhata the Elder
• Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm
• Born, Max
• Brahmagupta
• Cardano, Gerolamo
• Carroll, Lewis
• d'Alembert, Jean le Rond
• Dedekind, Richard
• Descartes, René
• Diophantus of Alexandria
• Euclid
• Eudoxus of Cnidus
• Euler, Leonhard
• Fermat, Pierre de
• Fourier, Joseph
• Frege, Gottlob
• Galois, Évariste
• Gauss, Carl Friedrich
• Germain, Sophie
• Gödel, Kurt
• Gregory, James
• Hamilton, William Rowan
• Hilbert, David
• Hipparchus
• Kovalevskaya, Sofya
• Lagrange, Joseph-Louis
• Laplace, Pierre-Simon
• Leibniz, Gottgried
• Leonardo of Pisa (Fibonacci)
• Lobachevsky, Nikolai
• Maclaurin, Colin
• Mandelbrot, Benoit
• Monge, Gaspard
• Napier, John
• Neumann, John von
• Newcomb, Simon
• Omar Khayyám
• Pappus
• Pascal, Blaise
• Picard, Émile
• Poincaré, Henri
• Pythagoras
• Russell, Bertrand
• Scott, Charlotte Angas
• Seki Kowa
• Steiner, Jakob
• Stevin, Simon
• Turing, Alan Mathison
• Wallis, John
• Whitehead, Alfred North
• Wiener, Norbert