History of mathematics

This volume explores the interplay between mathematical and physical research and the interactions of twentieth-century scientists within their academic communities.

Imre Lakatos (1922-1974) was one of the protagonists in shaping the "e;new philosophy of science"e;.

This book commemorates the 150th birthday of Corrado Segre, one of the founders of the Italian School of Algebraic Geometry and a crucial figure in the history of Algebraic Geometry.

The book starts with the assumption that vagueness is a fundamental property of this world.

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This monograph meticulously examines the contributions of French mathematician Michel Chasles to 19th-century geometry.

George Gabriel Stokes was one of the most important mathematical physicists of the 19th century.

Who was Nicolas Rashevsky?

LYTTON STRACHEY tells the following story.

This text presents the ideas of a particular group of mathematicians of the late 18th century known as "e;the German combinatorial school"e; and its influence.

This is a volume of chapters on the historical study of information, computing, and society written by seven of the most senior, distinguished members of the History of Computing field.

This is a history of parametric statistical inference, written by one of the most important historians of statistics of the 20th century, Anders Hald.

In this book the authors aim to endow the reader with an operational, conceptual, and methodological understanding of the discrete mathematics that can be used to study, understand, and perform computing.

The tremendous success of indivisibles methods in geometry in the seventeenth century, responds to a vast project: installation of infinity in mathematics.

In diesem Band soll eine zusammenfassende Darstellung der äußeren Ent­ wicklung der Mathematik an den deutschen Universitäten gegeben wer­ den.

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira KnightleyIt is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (19121954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented the computer and artificial intelligence, and anticipated gay liberation by decadesall before his suicide at age forty-one.

This book brings together philosophers, mathematicians and logicians to penetrate important problems in the philosophy and foundations of mathematics.

This collection of essays aims to promote constructive mathematics, not by defining it or formalizing it, but by practicing it.

The present book is an introduction to the philosophy of mathematics.

In diesem Werk wird einer der klassischen Texte der Mathematik umfassend historisch, mathematisch, physikalisch und philosophisch von Jürgen Jost ausführlich kommentiert und die gesamte Entwicklung dieser Disziplinen eingeordnet.

In this book, Johnny Ball tells one of the most important stories in world history the story of mathematics.

This fully-updated third edition of Teaching Mathematics using ICT incorporates all the most recent developments in mathematics education, including the new National Curriculum and recent Ofsted maths report.

Mathematical and philosophical thought about continuity has changed considerably over the ages.

Die Tatsache, dass die Wissenschaft in immer zahlreichere Lebensbereiche eingreift, hat sie in den letzten Jahren vermehrt ins Rampenlicht des öffentlichen Bewusstseins treten lassen und dazu geführt, dass politische, wirtschaftliche und gesellschaftliche Kräfte ihre Autonomie in Frage stellen.

This collection of essays aims to promote constructive mathematics, not by defining it or formalizing it, but by practicing it.

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This volume presents a selection of 434 letters from and to the Dutch physicist and Nobel Prize winner Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1853-1928), covering the period from 1883 until a few months before his death in February 1928.

One of the disappointments experienced by most mathematics students is that they never get a course in mathematics.

The chapters in this timely volume aim to answer the growing interest in Arthur Schopenhauer's logic, mathematics, and philosophy of language by comprehensively exploring his work on mathematical evidence, logic diagrams, and problems of semantics.

This book reveals the French scientific contribution to the mathematical theory of nonlinear oscillations and its development.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Über das Leben und Werk Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlets" verfügbar.

Lowenheim's theorem reflects a critical point in the history of mathematical logic, for it marks the birth of model theory--that is, the part of logic that concerns the relationship between formal theories and their models.

This book presents contributions of mathematicians covering topics from ancient India, placing them in the broader context of the history of mathematics.

The volume includes twenty-five research papers presented as gifts to John L.

This volume explores how scholars wrote, preserved, circulated, and read knowledge in ancient Mesopotamia.

This book examines the theoretical foundations underpinning the field of strength of materials/theory of elasticity, beginning from the origins of the modern theory of elasticity.

Although not so well known today, Book 4 of Pappus' Collection is one of the most important and influential mathematical texts from antiquity.

A History of Mathematics: From Mesopotamia to Modernity covers the evolution of mathematics through time and across the major Eastern and Western civilizations.

Praise for the Second Edition "e;An amazing assemblage of worldwide contributions in mathematics and, in addition to use as a course book, a valuable resource .