Bell E.T. Men of Mathematics: The Lives and Achievements of the Great Mathematicians from Zeno to Poincaré

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1937. — 628 p.The lives of mathematicians presented here are addressed to the general reader and to others who may wish to see what sort of human beings they were. Included are: Zeno ( 5th century B.C.), Eudoxus (408-355 B.C.), Archimedes (287-212 B.C.), Descartes (1596-1650), Poncelet (1788-1867), Gauss (1777-1855), Cauchy (1789-1856), Lobatchewsky (1795-1856), Weierstrass (1815-1897), Cantor (1845-1918), and a good dozen others.
Reprint 1986.