God Created The Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History

God Created the Integers  is Stephen Hawking's personal choice of the
greatest mathematical works in history. He allows the reader to peer into the
mind of genius by providing us with excerpts from original mathematical proofs
and results. He also helps us understand the progression of mathematical thought,
and the very foundations of our presentday technologies.

The book includes landmark discoveries spanning 2500 years and representing
the work of mathematicians such as Euclid, Georg Cantor, Kurt Gödel, Augustin
Cauchy, Bernard Riemann and Alan Turing. Each chapter begins with a biography
of the featured mathematician, clearly explaining the significance of the result,
followed by the full proof of the work, reproduced from the original publication,
many in new translations.

God Created the Integers  is Stephen Hawking's personal choice of the
greatest mathematical works in history. He allows the reader to peer into the
mind of genius by providing us with excerpts from original mathematical proofs
and results. He also helps us understand the progression of mathematical thought,
and the very foundations of our presentday technologies.

The book includes landmark discoveries spanning 2500 years and representing
the work of mathematicians such as Euclid, Georg Cantor, Kurt Gödel, Augustin
Cauchy, Bernard Riemann and Alan Turing. Each chapter begins with a biography
of the featured mathematician, clearly explaining the significance of the result,
followed by the full proof of the work, reproduced from the original publication,
many in new translations.