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God Created The Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs that Changed History Paperback – October 9, 2007

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Product Details

  • Paperback: 1376 pages
  • Publisher: Running Press; New edition (October 9, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0762430044
  • ISBN-13: 978-0762430048
  • Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 2 inches
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  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (62 customer reviews)
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275 of 290 people found the following review helpful
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By W. Stevens on March 6, 2006
Format: Hardcover
First, I loved the idea of this book--a compendum of the more significant mathematical breakthroughs in all their detail, as written by their creators. The text is refreshing in that it is not a watered down version of someone's results. I have a math background and all the details are appreciated. There's something about reading the original text, straight from the minds of these great men.

This book could be useful, for example, for someone who likes math and wants a 'sampler' of different areas of study. It could also be useful for someone reading up on the history of mathematics who wants to dig deeper into certain areas and see the original works.

All that said, I have to agree with another reviewer about the editing. It's awful (yes, awful) that such typographical errors could exist in a math book. The first section I looked at in this book, Riemann's original paper on the zeta function, had four typos ON THE SAME PAGE. This is disasterous to someone trying to learn the material for the first time, or someone trying to follow a tight line of argument. If this was a college text book, I'd probably burn it, because learning math is difficult enough, without having to contend with typos. To the editors of this book: COME ON GUYS, YOU CAN DO BETTER THAN THIS. YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED (YES, ASHAMED) OF YOURSELVES (you're just COPYING something someone else wrote--and yet you managed to mess that up)! At least put an errata page somewhere online.
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214 of 227 people found the following review helpful
A Browsers Delight But With One Important Defect
By R. E. Little on November 1, 2005
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It's not for everyone, but if you have a couple of years of college-level math, you can find your way through most of the material. Open to a random page, see what's going on, if it grabs you, find the beginning of the presentation and plow right in. Hawking's biographical/historical pieces are a delight and worth buying the book for even if you don't do the math. How come I graded one of the greatest minds of our time only 80% (4 stars)? The damn book has no index and it drives me crazy. Because of this defect, it's a pain to try to tie the work of the great mathematicians together. You miss out on an entire layer of interest that could be developed so much more easily had their been an index.
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119 of 126 people found the following review helpful
Need an editor, couldn't agree more
By silmarilli on March 29, 2006
Format: Hardcover
I really want to give this book at least 4 stars as I love the idea of encapsulating those great mathematical breakthroughs in one book and giving each a proper account instead of over simplistic summaries like many other math readings do.

HOWEVER, the errors contained in this book is intolerable. It doesn't make sense anymore to give those mathematical details as you can hardly follow them due to the errors.

For example, on page 5 it prints:

If (2^n - 1) is a prime number then 2^(n-1)*(2^(n-1)-1) is a perfect number and that even perfect numbers must have this form.

it obveriously should be 2^(n-1)*(2^n - 1) instead of what has been printed. As other readers have suggested, you would expect more similar errors along the way.

Don't buy this book and wait for the 2nd edition if the publisher ever want to make an effort to make this book readable. I'm so very disappointed.
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48 of 49 people found the following review helpful
Shout for joy or toss it?
By Catherine Mambretti on December 5, 2007
Format: Paperback
To evaluate my comments, I think you should know who I am and why I bought this book: I'm a former technical editor and writer. As a girl, I was discouraged from studying math, because at the time (the Fifties and Sixties) they thought girls couldn't understand it.

Recently I've tried to fill in the gaps in my math and science education. I thought the idea of Hawkings choosing landmark math texts and commenting on them was fantastic. After spending three days trying to understand the Euclidian proof of the Pythagorean theorem, and concluding I was just too dumb, I turned the page and discovered that according to the commentary the proof was for an isosceles right triangle, while the illustration was not isosceles.

Other reviewers have commented on the egregious errors and typos. I'd like to add that the whole publication is a typographical horror. The publisher should be ashamed. The font size is miniscule. The illustrations are often misleading. Hawkings may have chosen the texts, but the publisher apparently selected the editions based not on quality of translation but whether the copyright had expired: most appear to be nineteenth-century and to include outdated commentaries. At first I thought the commentaries were by Hawkings, but they aren't, and this was not only a disappointment but also a source of my confusion at several points where I couldn't understand them.

I would be surprised if even ten percent of the book is authored by Hawkings. Given this, the ghastly page layout, inaccurate reprints of outdated texts, and amateurish copyediting, this book is overpriced.

IF YOU'RE MATHEMATICALLY LITERATE, you will likely find Hawkings' material a joy to read. Even I -- with my limited background -- am able to appreciate some of it.Read more ›
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43 of 44 people found the following review helpful
Interesting, but mediocre
By Dance Ham on February 21, 2006
Format: Hardcover
I do not regret spending $30 on this text, but I feel it is not worth the money.

There are a few fundamental problems with the book.

First, Someone is only going to buy a book this nerdy if they are really into the subject. If they're really into the subject, they will probably want the full texts, not highlighted excerpts. Highlighted excerpts are handy as a reference, but since there is no index, this cannot be considered a reference book.

Second - it's nice that these works have Hawking's Seal of Approval, but the fact that Hawking has is name on this seems like nothing more than a marketing ploy. Most people buy Hawking's books because he makes a difficult subject easy. This being a collection of others' work makes me think that the publishers used Hawking's reputation to move copies.

Third - no index. That's ridiculous for a book like this.

Overall, I'm happy with the book, but I think it fails because it hovers between a reference book and a historical collection.

If you're serious about studying the subjects covered, I would suggest spending your money on the Dover edition of what you're looking for. Buy this book if you're an enthusiast and want some stimulating reading.
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