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Men of Mathematics
Mathematics
E. T. Bell's classic 1937 collection of biographical essays on the great mathematicians, from Zeno to Cantor. Whitfield Diffie credits it as the book from which he learned half the mathematics he knew before MIT, and which gave him a romantic, if idealized, vision of the academic mathematician's life.
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“I learned half of the mathematics I know by the time I entered MIT… most of my source was Men of Mathematics… Roughly speaking, I developed a vision of being a 19th-century academic mathematician.”
Diffie credits Bell's biographical essays with both teaching him much of his early mathematics and giving him a romanticized vision of the mathematician's life.
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