Now in new trade paper editions, these classic biographies of two of the
greatest 20th Century mathematicians are being released under the
Copernicus imprint. These noteworthy accounts of the lives of David
Hilbert and Richard Courant are closely related: Courant's story is, in
many ways, seen as the sequel to the story of Hilbert. Originally
published to great acclaim, both books explore the dramatic scientific
history expressed in the lives of these two great scientists and
described in the lively, nontechnical writing style of Contance Reid.