History of mathematics

This monograph traces the development of projective geometry from its Greek origins to the early 20th century.

The author of this book is affiliated with the Center for Development and Socialization of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Ed- ucation in Berlin and heads its program on culture and cognition which de- votes its labors to the reconstruction of scientific concepts through history in a perspective of what might be called "e;historical epistemology.

A compact survey, at the elementary level, of some of the most important concepts of mathematics.

Dieses Buch gibt einen kompakten Überblick über die historische Entwicklung und Ideengeschichte derjenigen mathematischen Disziplinen, die sich schon bis zur Renaissancezeit weitgehend eigenständig entwickelt haben: Arithmetik, Geometrie, Algebra, Zahlentheorie und mathematische Logik.

The present collection of essays are published in honor of the distinguished historian of mathematics Professor Emeritus Jesper Lutzen.

The history of mathematics is filled with major breakthroughs resulting from solutions to recreational problems.

Leonardo da Pisa, perhaps better known as Fibonacci (ca.

This book presents a historical and scientific analysis as historical epistemology of the science of weights and mechanics in the sixteenth century, particularly as developed by Tartaglia in his Quesiti et inventioni diverse, Book VII and Book VIII (1546; 1554).

While taking a class on infinity at Stanford in the late 1980s, Ravi Kapoor discovers that he is confronting the same mathematical and philosophical dilemmas that his mathematician grandfather had faced many decades earlier--and that had landed him in jail.

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

Mathematics is as much a science of the real world as biology is.

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 .

Volume II provides an advanced approach to the extended gibonacci family, which includes Fibonacci, Lucas, Pell, Pell-Lucas, Jacobsthal, Jacobsthal-Lucas, Vieta, Vieta-Lucas, and Chebyshev polynomials of both kinds.

In his monumental 1687 work,Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known familiarly as thePrincipia, Isaac Newton laid out in mathematical terms the principles of time, force, and motion that have guided the development of modern physical science.

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?

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

This is a translated autobiography of applied mathematician N.

This textbook offers a rigorous presentation of mathematics before the advent of calculus.

Numerous scientists have taken part in the war effort during World War I, but few gave it the passionate energy of the prominent Italian mathematician Volterra.

Numbers: A Cultural History provides students with a compelling interdisciplinary view of the development of mathematics and its relationship to world cultures over 4,500 years of human history.

The significance of foundational debate in mathematics that took place in the 1920s seems to have been recognized only in circles of mathematicians and philosophers.

Apollonius's Conics was one of the greatest works of advanced mathematics in antiquity.

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

Fifty years ago when Jacques Hadamard set out to explore how mathematicians invent new ideas, he considered the creative experiences of some of the greatest thinkers of his generation, such as George Polya, Claude Levi-Strauss, and Albert Einstein.

This monograph presents a groundbreaking scholarly treatment of the German mathematician Jost Burgi's original work on logarithms, Arithmetische und Geometrische Progre Tabulen.

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

This exposition is primarily a survey of the elementary yet subtle innovations of several mathematicians between 1929 and 1934 that led to partial and then complete solutions to Hilbert's Seventh Problem (from the International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris, 1900).

This volume offers a new English translation, introduction, and detailed commentary on Sefer Meyasher 'Aqov, (The Rectifying of the Curved), a 14th-century Hebrew treatise on the foundation of geometry.

This little book makes serious math simple-with more than 120 laws, theorems, paradoxes, and more explained in jargon-free terms.

The seventeenth century saw dramatic advances in mathematical theory and practice.

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

The book deals with expounding the nature of Reality as it is understood in contemporary times in Quantum Physics.

This monograph presents in great detail a large number of both unpublished and previously published Babylonian mathematical texts in the cuneiform script.

This book contains a history of real and complex analysis in the nineteenth century, from the work of Lagrange and Fourier to the origins of set theory and the modern foundations of analysis.

This title was originally published in 1967.

During his lifetime, Kurt Godel was not well known outside the professional world of mathematicians, philosophers and theoretical physicists.

As the famous Pythagorean statement reads, 'Number rules the universe', and its veracity is proven in the many mathematical discoveries that have accelerated the development of science, engineering, and even philosophy.

This book contains around 80 articles on major writings in mathematics published between 1640 and 1940.

Over the past eighty years, martingales have become central in the mathematics of randomness.

Das Buch berichtet über das Leben des Mathematikers Friedrich Hirzebruch (1927-2012) und seinen lebenslangen Einsatz für die Mathematik.

Not all scientific explanations work by describing causal connections between events or the world's overall causal structure.

In this groundbreaking volume, leading philosophers and mathematicians explore Kurt Gödel''s work on the foundations and philosophy of mathematics.

This book presents a novel methodology to study economic texts.

Kurt Godel (1906 - 1978) was the most outstanding logician of the twentieth century, famous for his hallmark works on the completeness of logic, the incompleteness of number theory, and the consistency of the axiom of choice and the continuum hypothesis.

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 Development of Mathematics Between the World Wars traces the transformation of scientific life within mathematical communities during the interwar period in Central and Eastern Europe, specifically in Germany, Russia, Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia.