God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs that Changed History

xiii, 1160 pp. God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History is an anthology, edited by Stephen Hawking, of "excerpts from thirty-one of the most important works in the history of mathematics."[1] The works are grouped by author and ordered chronologically. Each section is prefaced by notes on the mathematician's life and work.