Bernhard Riemann 1826-1866
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Author(s): D. Laugwitz
Publisher: Birkhäuser
ISBN: 0 8176 4040 1
Format: hardback
357pp
Price: sFr148
Review Date: 23 May 2000
Review: This translation from the German has the subtitle 'Turning Points in the Conception of Mathematics'. It examines Riemann's scientific work from a single unifying perspective. The author describes Riemann's development of a conceptual approach to mathematics at a time when conventional algorithmic thinking dictated that formulae and figures, rigid constructs and transformations of terms were the only legitimate means of studying mathematical objects. The book will be of interest to mathematicians, physicists and philosophers who are interested in mathematics.