History of mathematics

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This is a volume of chapters on the historical study of information, computing, and society written by seven of the most senior, distinguished members of the History of Computing field.

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

In this book the authors aim to endow the reader with an operational, conceptual, and methodological understanding of the discrete mathematics that can be used to study, understand, and perform computing.

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira KnightleyIt is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (19121954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented the computer and artificial intelligence, and anticipated gay liberation by decadesall before his suicide at age forty-one.

In this book, Johnny Ball tells one of the most important stories in world history the story of mathematics.

This fully-updated third edition of Teaching Mathematics using ICT incorporates all the most recent developments in mathematics education, including the new National Curriculum and recent Ofsted maths report.

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

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.

One of the disappointments experienced by most mathematics students is that they never get a course in mathematics.

The chapters in this timely volume aim to answer the growing interest in Arthur Schopenhauer's logic, mathematics, and philosophy of language by comprehensively exploring his work on mathematical evidence, logic diagrams, and problems of semantics.

Lowenheim's theorem reflects a critical point in the history of mathematical logic, for it marks the birth of model theory--that is, the part of logic that concerns the relationship between formal theories and their models.

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

This volume explores how scholars wrote, preserved, circulated, and read knowledge in ancient Mesopotamia.

A History of Mathematics: From Mesopotamia to Modernity covers the evolution of mathematics through time and across the major Eastern and Western civilizations.

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 .

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

This book seeks to explore the history of descriptive geometry in relation to its circulation in the 19th century, which had been favoured by the transfers of the model of the Ecole Polytechnique to other countries.

Newton's explanation of the natural law of universal gravity shattered the way mankind perceived the universe, and hence it was not immediately embraced.

This volume contains thirteen papers that were presented at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/Societe canadienne d'histoire et de philosophie des mathematiques, which was held at Ryerson University in Toronto.

A defining feature of nineteenth-century Britain was its fascination with statistics.

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.

This biography of the mathematician, Sophie Germain, paints a rich portrait of a brilliant and complex woman, the mathematics she developed, her associations with Gauss, Legendre, and other leading researchers, and the tumultuous times in which she lived.

This volume explores how scholars wrote, preserved, circulated, and read knowledge in ancient Mesopotamia.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Die Entwicklung der Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie von den Anfängen bis 1933" verfügbar.

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

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

Bernard Bolzano (1781-1848, Prague) was a remarkable thinker and reformer far ahead of his time in many areas, including philosophy, theology, ethics, politics, logic, and mathematics.

A survey of some of the main-line developments in trigonometric series.

This study of graded rings includes the first systematic account of graded Grothendieck groups.

Oscar Zariski's work in mathematics permanently altered the foundations of algebraic geometry.

What exactly is analysis?

An exquisite visual celebration of the 2,500-year history of geometryIf you've ever thought that mathematics and art don't mix, this stunning visual history of geometry will change your mind.

Presents the outline of mathematics and its history, with particular emphasis on events that shook up its philosophy.

This book, which is aimed at general readers interested in maths as well as professional mathematicians, addresses numerous aspects of this spell-binding science.

This book contains all the letters that are known to survive from the correspondence of Charles Hutton (1737-1823).

The year's finest writing on mathematics from around the worldThis annual anthology brings together the year's finest mathematics writing from around the world.

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 astonishing variety and beauty of mathematical elements in stamp design is brought to life in this collection of more than 350 stamps, each reproduced in enlarged format, in full color.

What is mathematics about?

James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) had a relatively brief, but remarkable life, lived in his beloved rural home of Glenlair, and variously in Edinburgh, Aberdeen, London and Cambridge.

The emigration of mathematicians from Europe during the Nazi era signaled an irrevocable and important historical shift for the international mathematics world.

This book is a complete English translation of Augustin-Louis Cauchy's historic 1823 text (his first devoted to calculus), Resume des lecons sur le calcul infinitesimal, "e;Summary of Lectures on the Infinitesimal Calculus,"e; originally written to benefit his Ecole Polytechnique students in Paris.

Computing systems are ubiquitous in contemporary life.

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira KnightleyIt is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (19121954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented the computer and artificial intelligence, and anticipated gay liberation by decadesall before his suicide at age forty-one.

Throughout the book, readers take a journey throughout time and observe how people around the world have understood these patterns of quantity, structure, and dimension around them.

This study of graded rings includes the first systematic account of graded Grothendieck groups.