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The Princeton companion to mathematics / Timothy Gowers, editor;
June Barrow-Green, Imre Leader, associate editors.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-691-11880-2 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Mathematics—Study and teaching (Higher) 2. Princeton University.
I. Gowers, Timothy. II. Barrow-Green, June, date-III. Leader, Imre.
QA11.2.P745 2008
510—dc22 2008020450
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Scheits (1703). Courtesy of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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Page 748. Portrait of Leonhard Euler by J. F. A. Darbès (inv. no.
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Page 775. Portrait of Bernhard Riemann. Courtesy of
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Page 786. Portrait of Henri Poincaré. Courtesy of
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