Author:
Cook, Mariana Ruth.
Imprint:Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c2009.
Description199 p. : ports ; 30 cm.
Note:Includes index.
Note:Adebisi Agboola -- Michael Artin -- Michael Francis Atiyah -- Manjul Bhargava -- Bryan John Birch -- Joan S. Birman -- David Harold Blackwell -- Enrico Bombieri -- Richard Ewen Borcherds -- Andrew Browder -- Felix E. Browder -- William Browder -- Lennhart Axel Edvard Carleson -- Nenri Cartan -- Sun-Yung Alice Chang -- Alain Connes -- John Hoeton Conway -- Kevin David Corlette -- Ingrid Chantal Daubechies -- Pierre Deligne -- Persi Warren Diaconis -- Simon Donaldson -- Noam D. Elkies -- Gerd Faltings -- Charles Louis Fefferman -- Robert Fefferman Michale Freedman -- Israel Moiseevich Gelfand -- William Timothy Gowers -- Phillip Griffiths - Mikhael Leonidovich Gromov -- Benedict H. Gross -- Robert Clifford Gunning -- Eriko Hironaka -- Heisuke Hironaka -- Friedrich E. Hirzebruch -- Vaughan Frederick Randal Jones -- Nicholas Micahel Katz -- Robion Korby -- Frances Kirwan -- Joseph John Kohn -- Janos Kollar -- Bertram Kostant -- Harold William Kuhn-- Robert Phelan Langlands -- Peter David Lax -- Robert D. MacPherson -- Paul Malliavin -- Benoit Mandelbrot -- William Alfred Massey -- John N. Mather -- Barry Mazur -- Margaret Dusa McDuff -- Curtis McMullen -- John Williard Milnor -- Maryam Mirzakhani -- Cathleen Synge Morawetz -- David Mumford -- John Forbes Nash, Jr. -- Edward Nelson -- Louis Nirenberg -- George Olatokunbo Okikiolu -- Kate Adebola Okikiolu -- Andrei Okounkov -- Roger Penrose -- Arlie Petters -- Marina Ratner -- Kenneth Ribet -- Peter Clive Sarnak -- Marcus du Sautoy -- Jean-Pierre Serre -- James Harri Simons -- Yakov Grigorevich Sinai -- Isadore Manual Singer -- Yum-Tong Siu -- Stephen Smale -- Elias Menachem Stein -- Dennis Parnell Sullivan -- Terence ChiShen Tao -- Robert Endre Tarjan -- John T. Tate -- William Paul Thurston -- Gang Tian -- Durt Totaro -- Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck -- Sathamangalam Rangaiyengar Srinivasa Varandhan -- Michele Vergne -- Marie-France Vigneras -- Avi Wigderson -- Andrew John Wiles -- Shing-Tung Yau -- Don Zagier.
Note:Photographs accompanied by autobiographical text written by each mathematician.
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