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  • James, I., Remarkable Mathematicians - From Euler to von Neumann, The Mathematical Association of America, Cambridge University Press, 2006 (2002), ISBN 0-521-52094-0.
  • Muir, J., Of Men & Numbers - The Story of the Great Mathematicians, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1996 (1961), ISBN 0-486-28973-7.
  • Picutti, E., Edwards, H., Schwartz, L., m. fl., Stora matematiker: Från Fibonnacci till Wiles, Studentlitteratur, 2000, ISBN 91-44-01034-6.
  • Regis, E., Who Got Einstein's Office? : Eccentricity and Genius at the Institute for Advanced Study, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., Reading, Massachussets, 1987, ISBN 0-201-12065-8.
  • Turnbull, H. W., The Great Mathematicians: A short biographical history of mathematics, from Thales and Pythagoras to the great mathematical innovators of our own century, Introduction by James R. Newman, Simon and Schuster, New York, Second paperback printing, 1962 (1929), Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 61-16934.

Leonardo da Vinci

  • Johnsson, G., Jag, Leonardo - en biografisk roman, Bokförlaget Libris, Örebro, 1992, ISBN 91-7194-889-9.

Nikolaus Kopernikus

  • Mazurkiewicz, J., Klimek, S., Nikolaus Kopernikus - L'Uomo Universale, Verlag VIA, 2000, ISBN 83-88649-02-7.

Francis Bacon

  • Eiseley, L., The Man Who Saw Through Time, Revised and elarged edition of "Francis Bacon and the Modern Dilemma, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1973 (1961), ISBN 0-684-13285-0.

Galileo Galilei

  • Finocchiaro, M. A., The Galileo Affair: A Documentary History, University of California Press, 1989, ISBN 0-520-06662-6.
  • Harsanyi, Z., Hans väg mot Stjärnorna - Romanen om Galileo Galilei, Ungerska originalets titel: Mégis Mozog a Föld, Bemyndigad översättning av Sigurd Westberg, Wahlström & Widstrand, Stockholm, 1940.
  • de Santillana, G., The Crime of Galileo, The University of Chicago Press, 1955, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 55-7400.
  • Sobel, D., Galileis dotter, Vetenskap, religion och innerlig tillgivenhet, En Levnvadsteckning, Wahlström & Widstrand, 1999, ISBN 91-46-17680-2.

Johannes Kepler

  • Baumgardt, C., Johannes Kepler: Life and Letters, with an introduction by Albert Einstein, Philosophical Library, New York, 1951.
  • Caspar, M., Kepler, Translated and Edited by C. Doris Kellman, With a new Introduction and References by Owen Gingerich, Dover Publications, inc., New York, 1993 (1959), ISBN 0-486-67605-6.

Isaac Newton

  • Cohen, I. B., Smith, G. E., (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Newton, Cambridge University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-521-65696-6.
  • Gleick, J., Isaac Newton, Historiska Media, 2003, ISBN 91-85507-12-1.
  • Westfall, R. S., Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1980, ISBN 0-521-23143-4.
  • White, M., Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer, Fourth Estate, London, 1997, ISBN 1-85702-416-8.

Christiaan Huygens

  • Bell, A. E., Christian Huygens - and the Development of Science in the Seventeenth Century, Edward Arnold & Co., London, 1947.

Christopher Polhem

  • Christopher Polhem: The Father of Swedish Technology, Translated from Christopher Polhem (Minnesskrift utgifven af Svenska Teknologföreningen, 1911) by William A. Johnson, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, 1963, Published by The Trustees of Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, 1963, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 63-13636.
  • Lindroth, S., Christopher Polhem och Stora Kopparberget - Ett bidrag till Bergsmekanikens Historia, Mit deutscher Zusammenfassung, Almqvist & Wiksells Boktryckeri AB, Uppsala, 1951.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

  • Biermann, K. R., Carl Friedrich Gauss: Der "Fürst der Mathematiker" in Briefen und Gesprächen, Urania-Verlag, Leipzig, jena, Berlin, 1990, ISBN 3-332-00358-5.
  • Hall, T., Gauss - Matematikernas Konung, Bokförlaget Prisma, Stockholm, 1965.

Évariste Galois

  • Hall, T., En matematisk tragedi, Andra, utökade upplagan, Brombergs Bokförlag, Uppsala, 1977, ISBN 91-85342-36-X.

William Kingdon Clifford

  • Chisholm, M., Such Silver Currents - The Story of William and Lucy Clifford 1845-1929, The Lutterworth Press, Cambridge, 2002, ISBN 0-7188-3017-2.

Sophus Lie

  • Stubhaug, A., The Mathematician Sophus Lie: "It was the Audacity of My Thinking", Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2002, ISBN 3-540-42137-8.

Albert Einstein

  • Pais, A., "Subtle is the Lord" - The Science and Life of Albert Einstein, Oxford Paperbacks, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1983 (1982), ISBN 0-19-285138-1.

Srinivasa Ramanujan

  • Kanigel, R., The man who knew infinity: A life of the genius Ramanujan, Washington Square Press, 1992, ISBN 0-571-75061-5.

Alan Turing

  • Hodges, A., Alan Turing -the enigma: The Extraordinary story of the brilliant scientist who broke "enigma", Germany's most secret world war II code, who pioneered the modern computer age, and who finally fell victim to the cold-war world of military secrets and sexual scandal, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1983, ISBN 0-671-49207-1.


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