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Alfred North Whitehead

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Amir D. Aczel

Business & Economics, Fiction, Mathematics, Philosophy, Religion, Science, Transportation

Amir D. Aczel, Ph.D., his work has been translated into Turkish, Hebrew, French, German, italian, Chinese and Spanish. An internationally known mathematician, he lives in the Boston area.

Donald J. Albers

Biography & Autobiography, Mathematics

Gerald L. Alexanderson

Biography & Autobiography, Mathematics

Simon L. Altmann

History

Alice Ambrose

Philosophy

Apollonius of Perga

Mathematics

Pergaetus Apollonius was one of the greatest mathematicians of antiquity. Commonly called "the great geometer," he was educated at Alexandria, Egypt, under the successors of Euclid. Apollonius presented the first systematic treatment of conic sections and coined the terms parabola, ellipse, and hyperbola. Seven of the ....[more]

Raymond C. Archibald

Mathematics, Science

Archimedes

Philosophy, Science

Archimedes was a mathematician and inventor, born in Syracuse, Sicily, about 287 B.C. He became famous for his law of the lever and for inventing the catapult, parabolic mirror, and the mechanical crane that was capable of capsizing a ship by overturning it. These inventions were designed to defend Syracuse during the ....[more]