God Created the Integers

God Created the Integers

Cover of the first edition
Author	Stephen Hawking
Language	English
Subject	Mathematics
Publisher	Running Press
Publication date	2005 (first edition) 2007 (second edition)
Media type	Print
Pages	1176
ISBN	9780762419227 (first edition) 9780762430048 (second edition)
Preceded by	A Briefer History of Time
Followed by	The Grand Design

God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History is a 2005 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."

Content

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:

• Euclid
• Archimedes
• Diophantus
• René Descartes
• Isaac Newton
• Leonhard Euler
• Pierre-Simon Laplace
• Joseph Fourier
• Carl Friedrich Gauss
• Augustin-Louis Cauchy
• Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky
• János Bolyai
• Évariste Galois
• George Boole
• Bernhard Riemann
• Karl Weierstrass
• Richard Dedekind
• Georg Cantor
• Henri Lebesgue
• Kurt Gödel
• Alan Turing

Selections from the works of Euler, Bolyai, Lobachevsky and Galois, which are included in the second edition of the book (published in 2007), were not included in the first edition.

Editions

• Hawking, Stephen (2005). God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History. Running Press Book Publishers. pp. 1160 (Hardback). ISBN 0-7624-1922-9.
• Hawking, Stephen (2007). God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History. Running Press Book Publishers. pp. 1358 (Paperback). ISBN 978-0-7624-3004-8.