James, Ioan (Author)
Cambridge University Press
Physical Details: 320 pp.; bib.; index
Language: English
Description Biographical survey of sixty mathematicians from the 18th to the 20th centuries.
Review Costa, Shelley (2003) Review of "Remarkable Mathematicians". Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science (p. 145).
Essay Review Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard (2010) On a Missed Opportunity for Collaboration between Historians and Mathematicians: A Biographical Avalanche Triggered by Professor Ioan James, FRS. Historia Mathematica (pp. 693-707).
Review Jones, Claire (2004) Review of "Remarkable Mathematicians". British Journal for the History of Science (p. 487).
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