History of mathematics

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

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

This book documents the process of transformation from natural philosophy, which was considered the most important of the sciences until the early modern era, into modern disciplines such as mathematics, physics, natural history, chemistry, medicine and engineering.

Drawing on published works, correspondence and manuscripts, this book offers the most comprehensive reconstruction of Boscovich's theory within its historical context.

Kurt Godel (1906-1978) shook the mathematical world in 1931 by a result that has become an icon of 20th century science: The search for rigour in proving mathematical theorems had led to the formalization of mathematical proofs, to the extent that such proving could be reduced to the application of a few mechanical rules.

This contributed volume explores the renaissance of general relativity after World War II, when it transformed from a marginal theory into a cornerstone of modern physics.

This monograph examines the private annotations that Ludwig Wittgenstein made to his copy of G.

This book focuses on the ancient Near East, early imperial China, South-East Asia, and medieval Europe, shedding light on mathematical knowledge and practices documented by sources relating to the administrative and economic activities of officials, merchants and other actors.

This volume offers an integrated understanding of how the theory of general relativity gained momentum after Einstein had formulated it in 1915.

This book presents an overview of the ways in which women have been able to conduct mathematical research since the 18th century, despite their general exclusion from the sciences.

This volume combines an introduction to central collineations with an introduction to projective geometry, set in its historical context and aiming to provide the reader with a general history through the middle of the nineteenth century.

This volume offers an integrated understanding of how the theory of general relativity gained momentum after Einstein had formulated it in 1915.

This book investigates Hermann Weyl's work on the problem of space from the early 1920s onwards.

This book presents a novel methodology to study economic texts.

This book deals with the general concepts in stereotomy and its connection with descriptive geometry, the social background of its practitioners and theoreticians, the general methods and tools of this technology, and the specific procedures for the members built in hewn stone, including arches, squinches, stairs and vaults, ending with a chapter discussing the open problems in this field.

This biography of the mathematician, Sophie Germain, paints a rich portrait of a brilliant and complex woman, the mathematics she developed, her associations with Gauss, Legendre, and other leading researchers, and the tumultuous times in which she lived.

This book presents a novel methodology to study economic texts.

This illuminating textbook provides a concise review of the core concepts in mathematics essential to computer scientists.

On the road toward a history of turbulence, this book focuses on what the actors in this research field have identified as the "e;turbulence problem"e;.

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 volume contains ten papers that have been collected by the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/Societe canadienne d'histoire et de philosophie des mathematiques.

The book offers a collection of essays on various aspects of Leibniz's scientific thought, written by historians of science and world-leading experts on Leibniz.

The first World Meeting for Women in Mathematics - (WM)2 - was a satellite event of the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) 2018 in Rio de Janeiro.

The primary purpose of this textbook is to introduce the reader to a wide variety of elementary permutation statistical methods.

This book presents a broad selection of articles mainly published during the last two decades on a variety of topics within the history of mathematics, mostly focusing on particular aspects of mathematical practice.

This volume aims to make Stephen of Pisa and Antioch's work on the celestial sciences accessible to a wider readership, providing not just the text but a translation and introduction as well.

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 book explores and articulates the concepts of the continuous and the infinitesimal from two points of view: the philosophical and the mathematical.

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

The science of magic squares witnessed an important development in the Islamic world during the Middle Ages, with a great variety of construction methods being created and ameliorated.

Jamshid al-Kashi's Miftah al-Hisab (Key to Arithmetic) was largely unknown to researchers until the mid-20th century, and has not been translated to English until now.

This book seeks to explore the history of descriptive geometry in relation to its circulation in the 19th century, which had been favoured by the transfers of the model of the Ecole Polytechnique to other countries.

This book outlines the scientific career of Arto Salomaa, a pioneer in theoretical computer science and mathematics.

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

This book investigates Hermann Weyl's work on the problem of space from the early 1920s onwards.

This book is a complete English translation of Augustin-Louis Cauchy's historic 1823 text (his first devoted to calculus), Resume des lecons sur le calcul infinitesimal, "e;Summary of Lectures on the Infinitesimal Calculus,"e; originally written to benefit his Ecole Polytechnique students in Paris.

This biography illuminates the life of Ennio De Giorgi, a mathematical genius in parallel with John Nash, the Nobel Prize Winner and protagonist of A Beautiful Mind.

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

This volume on ethnomathematics in Central Africa fills a gap in the current literature, focusing on a region rarely explored by other publications.

The book is aimed at people working in number theory or at least interested in this part of mathematics.

This book is about James Gregory's attempt to prove that the quadrature of the circle, the ellipse and the hyperbola cannot be found algebraically.

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 is the first extensive biography of the influential German mathematician, Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805 - 1859).

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

This book explores and articulates the concepts of the continuous and the infinitesimal from two points of view: the philosophical and the mathematical.

The book offers a collection of essays on various aspects of Leibniz's scientific thought, written by historians of science and world-leading experts on Leibniz.