Book excerpt: Stories of 9 great mathematicians such as Pythagoras, Archimedes, Newton, Fibonacci, Bernoulli, Euler and others Discover the brilliant mathematicians whose work lit up the world with reason and logic! The great minds of the past are, in many ways, still with us today. Learn about people who revolutionized our beliefs and our system of thinking. Here you will read about Pythagoras, who studied numbers not only to measure objects but also to make wonderful music; Euclid, who laid the very foundations of mathematics; Isaac Newton, who discovered how gravity governs all motion; Leonardo Fibonacci, who brought a whole new numbering system to Europe; and many such others. This valuable books gives you accurate accounts of lives from the annals of math. Explore more in this series with Champions of Science and Champions of Invention. John Hudson Tiner has a master’s degree from Duke University and is the author of textbooks, science curriculum material, character-building biographies and books on a variety of other subjects. He has more than a 1,000 published manuscripts, including 80 books, for all age groups. Champions of Discovery Series