History of mathematics

Since their appearance in the late 19th century, the Cantor--Dedekind theory of real numbers and philosophy of the continuum have emerged as pillars of standard mathematical philosophy.

This monograph investigates the development of hydrostatics as a science.

In the first edition of The Mathematical Tourist, renowned science journalist Ivars Peterson took readers on an unforgettable tour through the sometimes bizarre, but always fascinating, landscape of modern mathematics.

In Western Civilization Mathematics and Music have a long and interesting history in common, with several interactions, traditionally associated with the name of Pythagoras but also with a significant number of other mathematicians, like Leibniz, for instance.

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Constance Reid, in Chapter VII of her book Hilbert, tells the story of the writing of the Zahlbericht, as his report entitled Die Theorie der algebra is- chen Zahlkorper has always been known.

Evangelista Torricelli exemplifies the use the moderns made of the ancients' mathematical methods.

Gosta Mittag-Leffler (1846-1927) played a significant role as both a scientist and entrepreneur.

This book presents a detailed description of the development of statistical theory.

By the end of the 1960s, a new discipline named computer science had come into being.

The second edition of this book updates and expands upon a historically important collection of mathematical problems first published in the United States by Birkhauser in 1981.

In this two-volume compilation of articles, leading researchers reevaluate the success of Hilbert's axiomatic method, which not only laid the foundations for our understanding of modern mathematics, but also found applications in physics, computer science and elsewhere.

The controversy between the wave theory and the emission theory of light early in the nineteenth century has been a subject of numerous studies.

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

Intellectual History and the Identity of John Dee In April 1995, at Birkbeck College, University of London, an interdisciplinary colloquium was held so that scholars from diverse fields and areas of expertise could 1 exchange views on the life and work of John Dee.

This book, a tribute to historian of mathematics Jeremy Gray, offers an overview of the history of mathematics and its inseparable connection to philosophy and other disciplines.

In this textbook the authors present first-year geometry roughly in the order in which it was discovered.

John Corcoran was a very well-known logician who worked on several areas of logic.

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), his life and his work have been and continue to be the subject of an enormous number of scholarly works.

All the Math Your 5th Grader Needs to SucceedThis book will help your elementary school student develop the math skills needed to succeed in the classroom and on standardized tests.

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The tremendous success of indivisibles methods in geometry in the seventeenth century, responds to a vast project: installation of infinity in mathematics.

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.

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Recounts the modern transformation of model theory and its effects on the philosophy of mathematics and mathematical practice.

Euler was not only by far the most productive mathematician in the history of mankind, but also one of the greatest scholars of all time.

N 1964 at the World's Fair in New York I City one room was dedicated solely to mathematics.

A captivating introduction to key results of discrete mathematics through the work of Paul Erdős, blended with first-hand reminiscences.

This book explores the origins of mathematical analysis in an accessible, clear, and precise manner.

¿Cuando comenzó el pensamiento matemático en la Península Ibérica?

This book is the first part of a two volume anthology comprising a selection of 49 articles that illustrate the depth, breadth and scope of Nigel Kalton's research.

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

This edited review book on Godunov methods contains 97 articles, all of which were presented at the international conference on Godunov Methods: Theory and Applications, held at Oxford in October 1999, to commemo- rate the 70th birthday of the Russian mathematician Sergei K.

The world around us is saturated with numbers.

The book addresses for the first time the dynamics associated with the modernization of mathematics in China from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century from a transcultural global historical perspective.

The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy combines new scholarship with hands-on science to bring readers into direct contact with the work of ancient astronomers.

From the reviews: "e;This collection of essays surveys the most important of Fisher's papers in various areas of statistics.

How our understanding of calculus has evolved over more than three centuries, how this has shaped the way it is taught in the classroom, and why calculus pedagogy needs to changeCalculus Reordered takes readers on a remarkable journey through hundreds of years to tell the story of how calculus evolved into the subject we know today.

This is the second part of a two volume anthology comprising a selection of 49 articles that illustrate the depth, breadth and scope of Nigel Kalton's research.

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

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

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