History of mathematics

Inductive Logic is number ten in the 11-volume Handbook of the History of Logic.

To open a newspaper or turn on the television it would appear that science and religion are polar opposites - mutually exclusive bedfellows competing for hearts and minds.

This book is an autobiographical interview with Chinese Academician Yuan Wang on his experience in mathematical research.

This book explores the evolving relationship between the history and epistemology of mathematics and mathematics education over the past fifty years.

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson is best known for his 'Alice' books, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, written under his pen name of Lewis Carroll.

This book deals with the evolution of mathematical thought during the 20th century.

The term "e;fuzzy logic,"e; as it is understood in this book, stands for all aspects of representing and manipulating knowledge based on the rejection of the most fundamental principle of classical logic---the principle of bivalence.

Mathilde Vaerting (1884 – 1977) möchte den Mathematikunterricht ihrer Zeit radikal verändern und mit ihrer Methode der „Selbständigkeitsprobe“ einen Weg aufzeigen, Schüler*innen durch geeignete kognitive Anregung zu eigenständigem Denken zu motivieren.

This book is a collection of essays on the reception of Leibniz's thinking in the sciences and in the philosophy of science in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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

The Definitive Introduction ToThe Relationship BetweenReligion And Science In The Beginning: Why Did the Big Bang Occur?

This book challenges the views put forward by Pierre Cartier, one of the anchors of the famous Bourbaki group, and Cedric Villani, one of the most brilliant mathematicians of his generation, who received the Fields Medal in 2010.

Exploring more than seventy-five well-known paradoxes in mathematics, philosophy, physics, and the social sciences showing how reason and logic can dispel the illusion of contradiction.

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

Mathematics has for centuries been stimulated, financed and credited by military purposes.

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

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

An entertaining look at the origins of mathematical symbolsWhile all of us regularly use basic math symbols such as those for plus, minus, and equals, few of us know that many of these symbols weren't available before the sixteenth century.

"e;A complete introduction to the geometric code of nature, written and illustrated by the most perceptive of its modern investigators.

Das Buch nimmt die Leserschaft mit auf eine Entdeckungsreise in die Welt des Unendlichen.

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

Der Band enthält eine umfassende und problemorientierte Darstellung der antiken griechischen Mathematik von Thales bis zu Proklos Diadochus.

This is a collection of new investigations and discoveries on the history of a great tradition, the Lvov-Warsaw School of logic and mathematics, by the best specialists from all over the world.

This book considers the manifold possible approaches, past and present, to our understanding of the natural numbers.

Presented as an engaging discourse, this textbook invites readers to delve into the historical origins and uses of geometry.

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

This Encycropaedia is an outstanding to attempt take full account as incur as possible of history of science and technology from ancient times to twentieth century.

It has only been a couple of decades since Benoit Mandelbrot published his famous picture of what is now called the Mandelbrot set.

This is a unified treatment of the various algebraic approaches to geometric spaces.

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

This book examines the life and work of mathematician Giovanni Battista Guccia, founder of the Circolo Matematico di Palermo and its renowned journal, the Rendiconti del Circolo matematico di Palermo.

This book presents the entire body of thought of Norbert Wiener (1894-1964), knowledge of which is essential if one wishes to understand and correctly interpret the age in which we live.

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.

This is a translated autobiography of applied mathematician N.

hiS volume in the Synthese Library Series is the result of a conference T held at the University of Roskilde, Denmark, October 31st-November 1st, 1997.

Leibniz published the Dissertation on Combinatorial Art in 1666.

This book includes 18 peer-reviewed papers from nine countries, originally presented in a shorter form at TSG 25 The Role of History of Mathematics in Mathematics Education, as part of ICME-13 during.

Against a century of inclusive studies, this book presents a new interpretation of the Inca calculating board known as the yupana, based on a different set of assumptions.

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.

The twentieth century is the period during which the history of Greek mathematics reached its greatest acme.

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.