Descartes's Secret Notebook: A True T...
Amir D. AczelRene Descartes (1596–1650) is one of the towering and central figures in Western philosophy and mathematics. His apothegm "Cogito, ergo sum" marked the birth of the mind-body problem, while his creation of so-called Cartes...
The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics...
Amir D. AczelFrom the end of the 19th century until his death, one of history's most brilliant mathematicians languished in an asylum. The Mystery of the Aleph tells the story of Georg Cantor (1845-1918), a Russian-born German who created set theo...