History of mathematics

People, problems, and proofs are the lifeblood of theoretical computer science.

This collection of 23 articles is the output of lectures in special sessions on "e;The History of Theoretical, Material and Computational Mechanics"e; within the yearly conferences of the GAMM in the years 2010 in Karlsruhe, Germany, 2011 in Graz, Austria, and in 2012 in Darmstadt, Germany; GAMM is the "e;Association for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics"e;, founded in 1922 by Ludwig Prandtl and Richard von Mises.

Covering the years 2008-2012, this book profiles the life and work of recent winners of the Abel Prize: * John G.

Der Band enthält eine umfassende und problemorientierte Darstellung der antiken griechischen Mathematik von Thales bis zu Proklos Diadochus.

This book honors the career of historian of mathematics J.

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.

A companion publication to the international exhibition "e;Transcending Tradition: Jewish Mathematicians in German-Speaking Academic Culture"e;, the catalogue explores the working lives and activities of Jewish mathematicians in German-speaking countries during the period between the legal and political emancipation of the Jews in the 19th century and their persecution in Nazi Germany.

How did Pierre Fatou and Gaston Julia create what we now call Complex Dynamics, in the context of the early twentieth century and especially of the First World War?

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Diese Einführung in die Analysis orientiert sich in ihrem Aufbau an der zeitlichen Entwicklung der Themen.

Steps forward in mathematics often reverberate in other scientific disciplines, and give rise to innovative conceptual developments or find surprising technological applications.

Sir Walter Raleigh wollte wissen, wie Kanonenkugeln in einem Schiff am dichtesten aufgestapelt werden können.

Gosta Mittag-Leffler (1846-1927) played a significant role as both a scientist and entrepreneur.

The book presents the winners of the first five Abel Prizes in mathematics: 2003 Jean-Pierre Serre; 2004 Sir Michael Atiyah and Isadore Singer; 2005 Peter D.

Dieses Buch enthält Episoden aus der Mathematik des mittelalterlichen Islam, die einen großen Einfluss auf die Entwicklung der Mathematik hatten.

Vor fach- und kulturgeschichtlichem Hintergrund und mit viel Sinn für Didaktik und Sprachwitz skizziert der Autor die Gründungsphase der Analysis.

Felix Hausdorff (1868-1942) gehört zu den herausragenden Mathematikern der ersten Hälfte des 20.

This book tells the story of the Riemann hypothesis for function fields (or curves) starting with Artin's 1921 thesis, covering Hasse's work in the 1930s on elliptic fields and more, and concluding with Weil's final proof in 1948.

The book presents the winners of the Abel Prize in mathematics for the period 2013-17: Pierre Deligne (2013); Yakov G.

This second volume in a two-volume series provides an extensive collection of conjectures and open problems in graph theory.

This groundbreaking volume provides an up-to-date, accessible guide to Sanskrit astronomical tables and their analysis.

This book offers a historical explanation of important philosophical problems in logic and mathematics, which have been neglected by the official history of modern logic.

This textbook provides an accessible account of the history of abstract algebra, tracing a range of topics in modern algebra and number theory back to their modest presence in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and exploring the impact of ideas on the development of the subject.

This book provides a critical edition, translation, and study of the version of Euclid's treatise made by Thabit ibn Qurra, which is the earliest Arabic version that we have in its entirety.

This volume contains essays that examine infinity in early modern philosophy.

This book celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Scientific Computing (IMECC) of the University of Campinas, Brazil, by offering reviews of selected research developed at one of the most prestigious mathematics institutes in Latin America.

This volume is the first extensive study of the historical and philosophical connections between technology and mathematics.

This book explores the unique relationship between two different approaches to understand the nature of knowledge, reality, and existence.

The book addresses for the first time the dynamics associated with the modernization of mathematics in China from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century from a transcultural global historical perspective.

This book looks at classic puzzles from the perspective of their structures and what they tell us about the brain.

In this book, the author pays tribute to Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866), mathematician with revolutionary ideas, whose work on the theory of integration, the Fourier transform, the hypergeometric differential equation, etc.

This volume contains thirteen papers that were presented at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/Societe canadienne d'histoire et de philosophie des mathematiques, which was held at Ryerson University in Toronto.

This engaging book places Leonardo da Vinci's scientific achievements within the wider context of the rapid development that occurred during the Renaissance.

This is the second and final volume of Dutch physicist Hendrik Antoon Lorentz's scientific correspondence with Dutch colleagues, including Pieter Zeeman and Paul Ehrenfest.

This book examines the life and work of mathematician Giovanni Battista Guccia, founder of the Circolo Matematico di Palermo and its renowned journal, the Rendiconti del Circolo matematico di Palermo.

This textbook provides a unified and concise exploration of undergraduate mathematics by approaching the subject through its history.