God Created the Integers

Blurb

God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History is an anthology, edited by Stephen Hawking, of "excerpts from thirty-one of the most important works in the history of mathematics." The title of the book is a reference to a quotation attributed to mathematician Leopold Kronecker, who once wrote that "God made the integers; all else is the work of man." The works are grouped by author and ordered chronologically. Each section is prefaced by notes on the mathematician's life and work. The anthology includes works by the following mathematicians:
Euclid
Archimedes
Diophantus
René Descartes
Isaac Newton
Leonhard Euler
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Joseph Fourier
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky
János Bolyai
Évariste Galois
George Boole
Bernhard Riemann
Karl Weierstrass
Richard Dedekind
Georg Cantor
Henri Lebesgue
Kurt Gödel
Alan Turing
Selections from the works of Euler, Bolyai, Lobachevsky and Galois, which are included in the second edition of the book, were not included in the first edition.