History of mathematics

This is intended as a textbook on the history, philosophy and foundations of mathematics, primarily for students specializing in mathematics, but we also wish to welcome interested students from the sciences, humanities and education.

The last one hundred years have seen many important achievements in the classical part of number theory.

A lively and engaging look at logic puzzles and their role in mathematics, philosophy, and recreationLogic puzzles were first introduced to the public by Lewis Carroll in the late nineteenth century and have been popular ever since.

A forgotten episode of mathematical resistance reveals the rise of modern mathematics and its cornerstone, mathematical purity, as political phenomena.

People, problems, and proofs are the lifeblood of theoretical computer science.

The Liber mahameleth is a work in Latin written in the mid-12th century based (mainly) on Arabic sources from Islamic Spain.

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.

Today complex numbers have such widespread practical use--from electrical engineering to aeronautics--that few people would expect the story behind their derivation to be filled with adventure and enigma.

This monograph is an annotated translation of what is considered to be the world's first calculus textbook, originally published in French in 1696.

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.

This textbook combines the history of synthetic geometry, centered on the years 1800-1855, with a theorem-proof exposition of the geometry developed in those years.

Contrary to popular belief--and despite the expulsion, emigration, or death of many German mathematicians--substantial mathematics was produced in Germany during 1933-1945.

An award-winning history of the Enlightenment quest to devise a mathematical model of rationalityWhat did it mean to be reasonable in the Age of Reason?

In the 5th century the Indian mathematician Aryabhata (476-499) wrote a small but famous work on astronomy, the Aryabhatiya.

This book traces the first faltering steps taken in the mathematical theorisation of infinity which marks the emergence of modern mathematics.

Was offenbart die historische Entwicklung der Mathematik über die Menschen, die sie betreiben oder anwenden?

This book is a detailed study of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's creation of calculus from 1673 to the 1680s.

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.

A mathematical record of bounded prime gaps breakthroughs, from Erdős to Polymath8, with linked computer programs and complete appendices.

How playwrights from Alfred Jarry and Samuel Beckett to Tom Stoppard and Simon McBurney brought the power of mathematics to life on the stageThe discovery of alternate geometries, paradoxes of the infinite, incompleteness, and chaos theory revealed that, despite its reputation for certainty, mathematical truth is not immutable, perfect, or even perfectible.

- Following on from the 2000 edition of Jan De Witt's Elementa Curvarum Linearum, Liber Primus, this book provides the accompanying translation of the second volume of Elementa Curvarum Linearum (Foundations of Curved Lines).

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

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.

Algorithms are the hidden methods that computers apply to process information and make decisions.

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

Felix Hausdorff (1868-1942) gehört zu den herausragenden Mathematikern der ersten Hälfte des 20.

Explores the poetics of number, and especially counting and arithmetic, across a wide range of Greek and Latin poetry.

Who was Nicolas Rashevsky?

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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.

This book is an account of the important influence on the development of mathematical logic of Charles S.

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.

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Unterstützt von vielen historischen Dokumenten und Interviews mit Zeitzeugen geht dieses Werk auf ein bedeutsames Thema der Wissenschaftsgeschichte ein: die Entstehung der modernen Finanzmathematik in der zweiten Hälfte des letzten Jahrhunderts.

How music has influenced mathematics, physics, and astronomy from ancient Greece to the twentieth centuryMusic is filled with mathematical elements, the works of Bach are often said to possess a math-like logic, and Igor Stravinsky said "e;musical form is close to mathematics,"e; while Arnold Schoenberg, Iannis Xenakis, and Karlheinz Stockhausen went further, writing music explicitly based on mathematical principles.

This volume combines an introduction to central collineations with an introduction to projective geometry, set in its historical context and aiming to provide the reader with a general history through the middle of the nineteenth century.

This book concerns the origins of mathematical problem solving at the internationally active Osram and Telefunken Corporations during the golden years of broadcasting and electron tube research.

As Robyn Arianrhod shows in this new biography, the most complete to date, Thomas Harriot was a pioneer in both the figurative and literal sense.

The first World Meeting for Women in Mathematics - (WM)2 - was a satellite event of the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) 2018 in Rio de Janeiro.

The present book is an introduction to the philosophy of mathematics.

The book is the most in-depth account of the fossil skull anatomy and evolutionary significance of the 3.

The book presents the history of ICMI trough a prosopographical approach.

The first fully-fledged English translation of perhaps Archimedes'' most attractive mathematical work, with comments on his scientific style.

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

Exploring several of the evolutionary branches of the mathematical notion of genus, this book traces the idea from its prehistory in problems of integration, through algebraic curves and their associated Riemann surfaces, into algebraic surfaces, and finally into higher dimensions.