God Created the Integers
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Selections from the works of Euler, Bolyai, Lobachevsky and Galois, which are included in the second edition of the book (published in 2007), were not included in the first edition.
Editions
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References
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<references />, or <references group="..." />- ↑ Stephen Hawking, 2005. God Created the Integers p xi
- ↑ Eric Temple Bell, 1986. Men of Mathematics, Simon and Schuster, New York. p. 477
