Amazing Mathematicians (Broché)

The inspiring stories of the people who changed history. The Amazing People readers are collections of short stories in which exceptional people from history tell their story. Each title includes : a CD with a full reading of each person's story ; a COBUILD glossary of the more difficult words ; a timeline to accompany each story ; free online resources for students and teachers. In this book read about : Galileo who wanted to show that the Earth went around the Sun ; René Descartes, the Frenchman who famously said "I think, therefore I am" ; Isaac Newton who proved how gravity works ; Carl Friedrich Gauss, 'the Prince of Mathematicians' ; Charles Babbage who invented computers ; Ada Lovelace who wrote the first computer program.