History of mathematics

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A significant number of works have set forth, over the past decades, the emphasis laid by seventeenth-century mathematicians and philosophers on motion and kinematic notions in geometry.

Matroid theory was invented in the middle of the 1930s by two mathematicians independently, namely, Hassler Whitney in the USA and Takeo Nakasawa in Japan.

There exist literary histories of probability and scientific histories of probability, but it has generally been thought that the two did not meet.

This multi-authored effort, Mathematics of the nineteenth century (to be fol- lowed by Mathematics of the twentieth century), is a sequel to the History of mathematics fram antiquity to the early nineteenth century, published in three 1 volumes from 1970 to 1972.

Mathematics in India has a long and impressive history.

This is a collection of surveys on important mathematical ideas, their origin, their evolution and their impact in current research.

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Alfred Tarski (1901-1983) was a renowned Polish/American mathematician, a giant of the twentieth century, who helped establish the foundations of geometry, set theory, model theory, algebraic logic and universal algebra.

This monograph provides a concise introduction to the tangled issues of communication between Russian and Western scientists during the Cold War.

This contributed volume investigates the active role of the different contexts of mathematics teaching on the evolution of the practices of mathematical concepts, with particular focus on their foundations.

This book is a history of the development of mathematical astronomy in China, from the late third century BCE, to the early 3rd century CE - a period often referred to as 'early imperial China'.

This book presents an account of selected topics from key mathematical works of medieval Islam, based on the Arabic texts themselves.

Frobenius made many important contributions to mathematics in the latter part of the 19th century.

This book explores the work of Bernhard Riemann and its impact on mathematics, philosophy and physics.

This volume is an original collection of articles by 44 leading mathematicians on the theme of the future of the discipline.

Recounts the modern transformation of model theory and its effects on the philosophy of mathematics and mathematical practice.

The purpose of this book is to provide an overview of historical and recent results on concentration inequalities for sums of independent random variables and for martingales.

Science, with its inherent tension between the known and the unknown, is an inexhaustible mine of great stories.

This book presents a novel methodology to study economic texts.

This is a collection of surveys on important mathematical ideas, their origin, their evolution and their impact in current research.

This book examines the role of medieval authors in writing the history of ancient science.

Dieses Buch gibt einen kompakten Überblick über die historische Entwicklung und Ideengeschichte derjenigen mathematischen Gebiete, die sich erst in der Neuzeit zu eigenständigen Teildisziplinen entwickelt haben: Analysis, Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie, angewandte Mathematik, Topologie und Mengenlehre.

This book presents a historical account of Felix Klein's "e;Comparative Reflections on Recent Research in Geometry"e; (1872), better known as his "e;Erlangen Program.

Discover how zeta and L-functions have shaped the development of major parts of mathematics over the past two centuries.

This book is a record of a seminar on mathematical logic Kurt Gödel and Hans Hahn held in Vienna in 1931-32.

In this two-volume compilation of articles, leading researchers reevaluate the success of Hilbert's axiomatic method, which not only laid the foundations for our understanding of modern mathematics, but also found applications in physics, computer science and elsewhere.

While it is well known that the Delian problems are impossible to solve with a straightedge and compass - for example, it is impossible to construct a segment whose length is cube root of 2 with these instruments - the discovery of the Italian mathematician Margherita Beloch Piazzolla in 1934 that one can in fact construct a segment of length cube root of 2 with a single paper fold was completely ignored (till the end of the 1980s).

Hermann Weyl (1885-1955) was one of the twentieth century's most important mathematicians, as well as a seminal figure in the development of quantum physics and general relativity.

Walter Gautschi has written extensively on topics ranging from special functions, quadrature and orthogonal polynomials to difference and differential equations, software implementations, and the history of mathematics.

A review of 100 special schools for the mathematically talented students in twenty nations.

In this volume, a distinguished set of international scholars examine the nature of collaboration between life partners in the sciences, with particular attention to the ways in which personal and professional dynamics can foster or inhibit scientific practice.

Philanthropies funded by the Rockefeller family have been prominent in the social history of the twentieth century for their involvement in medicine and applied science.

As long as algebra and geometry The unreasonable effectiveness of proceeded along separate paths, mathematics in science .

Unterstützt von vielen historischen Dokumenten und Interviews mit Zeitzeugen geht dieses Werk auf ein bedeutsames Thema der Wissenschaftsgeschichte ein: die Entstehung der modernen Finanzmathematik in der zweiten Hälfte des letzten Jahrhunderts.

Leading thinkers in mathematics, philosophy and education offer new insights into the fundamental question: what is a mathematical concept?

The larger part of Yearbook 6 of the Institute Vienna Circle constitutes the proceedings of a symposium on Alfred Tarski and his influence on and interchanges with the Vienna Circle, especially those on and with Rudolf Carnap and Kurt Godel.

Newton's explanation of the natural law of universal gravity shattered the way mankind perceived the universe, and hence it was not immediately embraced.

Nonstandard Analysis enhances mathematical reasoning by introducing new ways of expression and deduction.

A lively collection of fun and challenging problems in ancient Egyptian mathThe mathematics of ancient Egypt was fundamentally different from our math today.

The genesis of the digital idea and why it transformed civilizationA few short decades ago, we were informed by the smooth signals of analog television and radio; we communicated using our analog telephones; and we even computed with analog computers.

Ada's Legacy illustrates the depth and diversity of writers, thinkers, and makers who have been inspired by Ada Lovelace, the English mathematician and writer.

"e;Jose Ferreiros has written a magisterial account of the history of set theory which is panoramic, balanced, and engaging.