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Duel at Dawn: Heroes, Martyrs, and the Rise of Modern Mathematics

Amir Alexander

Table of Contents

  • Introduction: A Showdown in Paris

    Part I: Natural Men

  1. The Eternal Child
  2. Natural Mathematics

    3. Part II: Heroes and Martyrs

  3. A Habit of Insult: The Short and Impertinent Life of Évariste Galois
  4. The Exquisite Dance of the Blue Nymphs
  5. A Martyr to Contempt

    6. Part III: Romantic Mathematics

  6. The Poetry of Mathematics
  7. Purity and Rigor: The Birth of Modern Mathematics

    8. Part IV: A New and Different World

  8. The Gifted Swordsman
  • Conclusion: Portrait of a Mathematician
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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