Significant Figures: Lives and Works of Trailblazing Mathematicians

This book is ideal for the ones who wants to learn the critical concepts in historical order with their inventors. This is more than learning from the stories, rather aligning the stars in the historical time-line.

It is relaxing learning what different mathematicians life and work have in common and not in common. Some we know the name and glimpses of the biography from other sources, but reading all together was really interesting.

The book by Ian Stewart is very well written. This version has nice font, in bigger size and hence easier to read than the mass market version.

I got exactly what I was looking for., Thanks for delivering in time.

Contrary to what is written about this book by the author, the publisher, or academics, this book is not so easily accessible to the lay-people. The book may appeal to the mathematically inclined.It reads like a list of mathematicians who have impacted academia, which could have been accomplished on one page.