Math Makers Dathan D. Rush our role models

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Machiavelli's frank pragmatism was countered by the utopian irony of Thomas More

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Math Makers Dathan D. Rush our role modelsMathematics today is the fruit of centuries of brilliant insights by men and women whose personalities and life experiences were often as extraordinary as their mathematical achievements. This entertaining history of mathematics chronicles those achievements through fifty short biographies that bring these great thinkers to life while making their contributions understandable to readers with little math background. Among the fascinating characters