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Significant figures
Which mathematician elaborated a crucial concept the night before he died in a duel? Who funded his maths and medical career through gambling and chess? Who learned maths from her wallpaper?
Ian Stewart presents the lives and discoveries of twenty-five of history's greatest mathematicians.
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