GOD CREATED THE INTEGERS is Stephen Hawking's personal choice of the greatest ma thematical works in history. He allows the reader to peer into the mind of geniu s by providing us with excerpts from original mathematical proofs and results. H e also helps us understand the progression of mathematical thought, and the very foundations of our presentday technologies. The book includes landmark discover ies spanning 2500 years and representing the work of mathematicians such as Eucl id, Georg Cantor, Kurt Godel, Augustin Cauchy, Bernard Riemann and Alan Turing. Each chapter begins with a biography of the featured mathematician, clearly expl aining the significance of the result, followed by the full proof of the work, r eproduced from the original publication, many in new translations.