God Created the Integers

{{short description|2005 anthology by Stephen Hawking}}

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| name = God Created the Integers

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| image = God Created the Integers.jpeg

| caption = Cover of the first edition

| author = Stephen Hawking

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| language = English

| subject = Mathematics

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| publisher = Running Press

| release_date = 2005 (first edition)
2007 (second edition)

| media_type = Print

| pages = 1176

| isbn = 9780762419227|isbn_note= (first edition)
9780762430048 (second edition)

| preceded_by = A Briefer History of Time

| followed_by = The Grand Design

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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."Stephen Hawking, 2005. God Created the Integers. p. xi.

Each chapter of the work focuses on a different mathematician and begins with a biographical overview. Within each chapter, Hawking examines the mathematician’s key discoveries, presents formal proofs of significant results, and explains their impact on the development of the mathematical field.

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."Eric Temple Bell, 1986. Men of Mathematics, Simon and Schuster, New York. p. 477