Mathematics

The New York Times Book Review called the book a major contribution to the scientific culture of this world. The survey, featuring the work of eighteen outstanding Russian mathematicians, which encompasses 20 subject areas in mathematics in terms of its simple origins and subsequent sophisticated development, is the best answer in print to what mathematics contains—on both elementary and advanced levels. The first division of the book tracks mathematics' evolution from an overview and analysis to an exploration of analytic geometry, algebra, and ordinary differential equations.