God Created the Integers (nonfiction)

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Front cover of the first edition of God Created the Integers.

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."

The title of the book is a reference to a quotation attributed to mathematician Leopold Kronecker, who once wrote that "God made the integers; all else is the work of man."

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The works are grouped by author and ordered chronologically. Each section is prefaced by notes on the mathematician's life and work.

The anthology includes works by the following mathematicians ...

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