History of mathematics

This book tells the story of the first computer exploration of Klein''s vision of infinitely repeated reflections, featuring extraordinary images.

Data-driven rankings of thousands of history''s most significant people in science, politics, entertainment, and all areas of human endeavor.

Data-driven rankings of thousands of history''s most significant people in science, politics, entertainment, and all areas of human endeavor.

Explores the poetics of number, and especially counting and arithmetic, across a wide range of Greek and Latin poetry.

Explores the poetics of number, and especially counting and arithmetic, across a wide range of Greek and Latin poetry.

History of the development of practical mathematics in early modern Europe through the practice of mining.

History of the development of practical mathematics in early modern Europe through the practice of mining.

The book discusses the complete proof of the Brown-Douglas-Fillmore theorem along with a number of its applications.

The New Mathematical Coloring Book (TNMCB) includes striking results of the past 15-year renaissance that produced new approaches, advances, and solutions to problems from the first edition.

The New Mathematical Coloring Book (TNMCB) includes striking results of the past 15-year renaissance that produced new approaches, advances, and solutions to problems from the first edition.

Bestselling author, pioneering photographer, mathematical don and writer of nonsense verse, Lewis Carroll remains a source of continuing fascination.

This is the perfect introduction for those who have a lingering fear of maths.

Sofia Kovalevskaya was a brilliant and determined young Russian woman of the 19th century who wanted to become a mathematician and who succeeded, in often difficult circumstances, in becoming arguably the first woman to have a professional university career in the way we understand it today.

Winner of the 1983 National Book Award!

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This volume reviews conceptual conflicts at the foundations of physics now and in the past century.

The Theory of the Top.

The Theory of the Top: Volume III.

Richard Trudeau confronts the fundamental question of truth and its representation through mathematical models in The Non-Euclidean Revolution.

Indiscrete Thoughts gives a glimpse into a world that has seldom been described that of science and technology as seen through the eyes of a mathematician.

Ten years have passed since the publication of the first English edition.

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This book is a study of how a particular vision of the unity of mathematics, often called geometric function theory, was created in the 19th century.

This volume offers insights into the development of mathematical logic over the last century.

Arnold Sommerfeld's "e;Mathematische Theorie der Diffraction"e; marks a milestone in optical theory, full of insights that are still relevant today.

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

Prior to the nineteenth century, algebra meant the study of the solution of polynomial equations.

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by Ivor Grattan-Guinness One of the distortions in most kinds of history is an imbalance between the study devoted to major figures and to lesser ones, concerning both achievements and influence: the Great Ones may be studied to death while the others are overly ignored and thereby remain underrated.

The Italian mathematician Mario Pieri (1860-1913) played a major role in the development of algebraic geometry and foundations of mathematics around the turn of the twentieth century.

The Theory of the Top.

This volume contains the first two out of four chapters which are intended to survey a large part of the theory of theta functions.

Number Theory or arithmetic, as some prefer to call it, is the oldest, purest, liveliest, most elementary yet sophisticated field of mathematics.

TheTheory of the Top attained its great fame from both its monum- tal scope and its outstanding authors.

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

In 1202, a 32-year old Italian finished one of the most influential books of all time, which introduced modern arithmetic to Western Europe.

In A Total Science, Jean-Guy Prevost charts how Italian statistics emerged as a full-fledged discipline, giving rise to a network of university chairs, journals, and other institutions.

This lively collection of lectures presented at the symposium by prominent scholars was collected and edited by Marcia Stayer with the assistance of Boris Castel.

How playwrights from Alfred Jarry and Samuel Beckett to Tom Stoppard and Simon McBurney brought the power of mathematics to life on the stageThe discovery of alternate geometries, paradoxes of the infinite, incompleteness, and chaos theory revealed that, despite its reputation for certainty, mathematical truth is not immutable, perfect, or even perfectible.

A book that finally demystifies Newton's experiments in alchemyWhen Isaac Newton's alchemical papers surfaced at a Sotheby's auction in 1936, the quantity and seeming incoherence of the manuscripts were shocking.

In recent decades it has become obvious that mathematics has always been a worldwide activity.

A meticulously researched history on the development of American mathematics in the three decades following World War IAs the Roaring Twenties lurched into the Great Depression, to be followed by the scourge of Nazi Germany and World War II, American mathematicians pursued their research, positioned themselves collectively within American science, and rose to global mathematical hegemony.

An engrossing look at the history and importance of a centuries-old but still unanswered math problemFor centuries, mathematicians the world over have tried, and failed, to solve the zeta-3 problem.