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Mathematical Legends

From Thales to Erdős

Tianxin Cai

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Springer Nature Switzerland AG
24 August 2025
This book is not only about the history of mathematics, but also by telling the story of some of the most distinctive personalities in the history of mathematics, it goes on to reveal the various strange treasures, bright flowers and hidden passions of the mathematical kingdom. Some of these mathematicians were thinkers, writers, poets, musicians, painters, politicians, judges, soldiers, clerks, young men of society or even prisoners. The mathematical world constructed by these geniuses is exquisite, and a walk in such a world not only expands our mathematical horizons and imagination, but also raises our humanistic cultivation to a higher level.

Written for general audience, this book will be of interest to anyone who's studied mathematics in university or even high school, while also benefiting researchers in mathematics and the humanities. The readers will also enjoy reading the beautiful and simple language of all the articles and interviews.
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Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of Publication:   Switzerland
Dimensions:   Height: 235mm,  Width: 155mm, 
ISBN:   9789819624027
ISBN 10:   9819624029
Series:   Springer Biographies
Pages:   221
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Further / Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Chapter 1. Thales of Miletus, First of The Seven Sages.- Chapter 2. Archimedes: The God of Mathematics.- Chapter 3. The World of Omar Khayyam.- Chapter 4. Qin Jiushao, Daogu Bridge, and the Mathematical Treatise in Nine Sections.- Chapter 5. The Reclusive Frenchmen:Descartes and Pascal .- Chapter 6. Leibniz: Unattainable Heights.- Chapter 7. John von Neumann, Who Made the World a Better Place.- Chapter 8. Paul Erdős: A Narrowly Missed Opportunity.- Chapter 9. Mathematicians and Poets.- Chapter 10. Mathematicians and Political Leaders.- Chapter 11. Hua Luogeng and Shiing-Shen Chern Two Contemporary Chinese Masters. Chapter 12. ""My life can be said to form a circle."" – An interview with Nobel laureate Professor Chen-Ning Yang.

Cai Tianxin was born in Taizhou, in southeastern China in 1963. He received his doctorate in science in 1987 from Shandong University, and currently serves as an outstanding professor at the School of Mathematics at Zhejiang University. In his capacity as a professor of mathematics, Cai proposed a class of Diophantine equations that was hailed as a “truly original contribution” by the British mathematician and recipient of the Fields Medal Alan Baker. He is also a poet, writer, and photographer, who has published more than forty literary and scholarly works, translated variously into more than twenty languages, including nine works translated into English. For his poetical and literary works, Cai was awarded the Naji Naaman Poetry Prize (Beirut) in 2013, and the Kathak Literary Award(Dakar) in 2019. As a speaker, he has delivered more than 600 public lectures on Mathematics throughout the world.

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