History of mathematics

A mathematical journey through the most fascinating problems of extremes and how to solve themWhat is the best way to photograph a speeding bullet?

Few American lives have been as celebrated--or as closely scrutinized--as that of Benjamin Franklin.

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.

An essential work on the origins of statisticsThe Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900 explores the history of statistics from the field's origins in the nineteenth century through to the factors that produced the burst of modern statistical innovation in the early twentieth century.

A foundational work on historical and social studies of quantificationWhat accounts for the prestige of quantitative methods?

How a simple equation reshaped mathematicsLeonhard Euler's polyhedron formula describes the structure of many objects-from soccer balls and gemstones to Buckminster Fuller's buildings and giant all-carbon molecules.

More than three centuries after its creation, calculus remains a dazzling intellectual achievement and the gateway to higher mathematics.

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.

A stimulating intellectual history of Ptolemy's philosophy and his conception of a world in which mathematics reigns supremeThe Greco-Roman mathematician Claudius Ptolemy is one of the most significant figures in the history of science.

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.

A stimulating intellectual history of Ptolemy's philosophy and his conception of a world in which mathematics reigns supremeThe Greco-Roman mathematician Claudius Ptolemy is one of the most significant figures in the history of science.

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.

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

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.

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.

A fascinating analysis of the relationship between mathematics and architecture in ancient Egypt.

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.

This book describes the relationship between science and poetry in the Hellenistic period, transforming our understanding of the origins of Western mathematics.

An interesting interpretation of the historical trajectory of pre-modern mathematics.

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

A wide-ranging and illuminating account of how our understanding of the world has developed by uncovering ''hidden unities'' in nature.

An examination of the emergence of the phenomenon of deductive argument in classical Greek mathematics.

An almost entirely self-taught mathematical genius, George Green (1793 –1841) is best known for Green's theorem, which is used in almost all computer codes that solve partial differential equations.

The numbers that we call Arabic are so familiar throughout Europe and the Americas that it can be difficult to realize that their general acceptance in commercial transactions is a matter of only the last four centuries and they still remain unknown in parts of the world.

A survey of Euclid's Elements, this text provides an understanding of the classical Greek conception of mathematics.

More than a history of mathematics, this lively book traces mathematical ideas and processes to their sources, stressing the methods used by the masters of the ancient world.

This compact, well-written history - first published in 1948, and now in its fourth revised edition - describes the main trends in the development of all fields of mathematics from the first available records to the middle of the 20th century.

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The updated new edition of the classic and comprehensive guide to the history of mathematics For more than forty years, A History of Mathematics has been the reference of choice for those looking to learn about the fascinating history of humankind s relationship with numbers, shapes, and patterns.

The updated new edition of the classic and comprehensive guide to the history of mathematics For more than forty years, A History of Mathematics has been the reference of choice for those looking to learn about the fascinating history of humankind s relationship with numbers, shapes, and patterns.

This book offers an accessible and in-depth look at some of the most important episodes of two thousand years of mathematical history.

In this book, the author writes freely and often humorously about his life, beginning with his earliest childhood days.

In 1915 and 1916 Emmy Noether was asked by Felix Klein and David Hilbert to assist them in understanding issues involved in any attempt to formulate a general theory of relativity, in particular the new ideas of Einstein.

This study discusses the history of the central limit theorem and related probabilistic limit theorems from about 1810 through 1950.

The Almagest, by the Greek astronomer and mathematician Ptolemy, is the most important surviving treatise on early mathematical astronomy, offering historians valuable insight into the astronomy and mathematics of the ancient world.

China's most sophisticated system of computational astronomy was created for a Mongol emperor who could neither read nor write Chinese, to celebrate victory over China after forty years of devastating war.

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This volume presents a selection of 434 letters from and to the Dutch physicist and Nobel Prize winner Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1853-1928), covering the period from 1883 until a few months before his death in February 1928.

1 An Initial Assignment I haven't taught the history of mathematics that often, but I do rather like the course.

This is a unique type of book; at least, I have never encountered a book of this kind.

The theory of series in the 17th and 18th centuries poses several interesting problems to historians.

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

The Artis analyticae praxis was published in 1631 in Latin.

The sub-collection of mathematical cuneiform texts in the Schoyen Collection makes a substantial addition to the known corpus of such texts.

Key Issues ver since the late 1970s when Pia Holdt, a student of mine at the time, and Jed Buchwald, a colleague normally working in another field, made E me aware of how fascinating the history of perspective constructions is, I have wanted to know more.

This revised and greatly expanded second edition of the Russian text Tales of Mathematicians and Physicists contains a wealth of new information about the lives and accomplishments of more than a dozen scientists throughout five centuries of history: from the first steps in algebra up to new achievements in geometry in connection with physics.

Krantz takes the reader on a journey around the globe and through centuries of history , exploring the many transformations that mathematical proof has undergone from its inception at the time of Euclid and Pythagoras to its versatile, present-day use .

This is a history of parametric statistical inference, written by one of the most important historians of statistics of the 20th century, Anders Hald.

"e;From nothing I have created a new different world,"e; wrote Janos Bolyai to his father, Wolgang Bolyai, on November 3, 1823, to let him know his discovery of non-Euclidean geometry, as we call it today.