{"product_id":"famous-in-stem-mathematical-masterminds-paperback","title":"Famous in STEM: Mathematical Masterminds - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJavier Sanz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA seven-year-old boy solves a problem in seconds that was meant to keep his class busy for an hour. A self-taught genius from India fills notebooks with formulas that stun Cambridge's finest minds. A woman's calculations send astronauts to the moon. These are the stories of history's greatest mathematicians.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInside \u003cb\u003eMathematical Masterminds\u003c\/b\u003e, the second volume in the bestselling \u003ci\u003eFamous in STEM\u003c\/i\u003e series, you'll meet the brilliant, eccentric, and often tragically underappreciated figures who built the language of the universe - one equation at a time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiscover the minds behind the math: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- \u003cb\u003eCarl Friedrich Gauss\u003c\/b\u003e - the \"Prince of Mathematics\" who stunned his teacher at age seven and never stopped\u003cbr\u003e- \u003cb\u003eAlan Turing\u003c\/b\u003e - cracked the Nazi Enigma code, fathered computer science, and was persecuted for who he loved\u003cbr\u003e- \u003cb\u003eSrinivasa Ramanujan\u003c\/b\u003e - a self-taught prodigy from rural India whose mysterious formulas still baffle mathematicians today\u003cbr\u003e- \u003cb\u003eKatherine Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e - the NASA mathematician whose hand calculations put John Glenn into orbit\u003cbr\u003e- \u003cb\u003eAda Lovelace\u003c\/b\u003e - wrote the world's first computer program a century before computers existed\u003cbr\u003e- \u003cb\u003eJohn Nash\u003c\/b\u003e - revolutionized game theory while battling decades of paranoid schizophrenia\u003cbr\u003e- ...and 16 more remarkable stories of obsession, genius, and the beauty of numbers \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Pythagoras's secret mathematical cult to Euler's superhuman productivity (even after going blind), each chapter turns abstract equations into human drama. You don't need to be a math expert to love this book - just curious about the people who saw patterns the rest of us couldn't.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFeaturing 22 mathematicians. Part of the Famous in STEM series.\u003c\/i\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 138\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 03, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48518826754296,"sku":"9798988051763","price":24.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/5629\/7208\/files\/m0gQgaYxD9798988051763.webp?v=1782923272","url":"https:\/\/barneysbooksellers.com\/products\/famous-in-stem-mathematical-masterminds-paperback","provider":"Barney's Book Sellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}