History of mathematics

This book sheds light on the variety of mathematical cultures in general.

This book describes and analyses the history of Dutch mathematics education from the point of view of the changing motivations behind the teaching of mathematics over a 200 year period.

The volume contains a comprehensive and problem-oriented presentation of ancient Greek mathematics from Thales to Proklos Diadochos.

This publication includes an unabridged and annotated translation of two works by Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728-1777) written in the 1760s: Vorlaufige Kenntnisse fur die, so die Quadratur und Rectification des Circuls suchen and Memoire sur quelques proprietes remarquables des quantites transcendentes circulaires et logarithmiques.

What makes mathematics so special?

An entertaining and enlightening history of irrational numbers, from ancient Greece to the twenty-first centuryThe ancient Greeks discovered them, but it wasn't until the nineteenth century that irrational numbers were properly understood and rigorously defined, and even today not all their mysteries have been revealed.

This volume presents multiple perspectives on the uses of the history of mathematics for teaching and learning, including the value of historical topics in challenging mathematics tasks, for provoking teachers' reflection on the nature of mathematics, curriculum development questions that mirror earlier pedagogical choices in the history of mathematics education, and the history of technological innovations in the teaching and learning of mathematics.

This book addresses the material devices used to represent and manipulate numerical concepts.

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

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.

The celebrated mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras left no writings.

A lively collection of fun and challenging problems in ancient Egyptian mathThe mathematics of ancient Egypt was fundamentally different from our math today.

In line with the emerging field of philosophy of mathematical practice, this book pushes the philosophy of mathematics away from questions about the reality and truth of mathematical entities and statements and toward a focus on what mathematicians actually do-and how that evolves and changes over time.

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

This book tells one of the greatest stories in the history of school mathematics.

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.

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.

In this book the classical Greek construction problems are explored in a didactical, enquiry based fashion using Interactive Geometry Software (IGS).

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

This book is about James Gregory's attempt to prove that the quadrature of the circle, the ellipse and the hyperbola cannot be found algebraically.

This illuminating textbook provides a concise review of the core concepts in mathematics essential to computer scientists.

This volume explores the interplay between mathematical and physical research and the interactions of twentieth-century scientists within their academic communities.

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.

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

In diesem essential beschreibt Heinz Klaus Strick anhand von zahlreichen Beispielen aus verschiedenen Teilgebieten der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung und Statistik, warum es bei stochastischen Fragestellungen immer wieder dazu kommt, dass Aussagen über Wahrscheinlichkeiten paradox erscheinen, also scheinbar im Widerspruch zu den eigenen Vorstellungen über Zufallsvorgänge stehen.

Chapters "e;Turing and Free Will: A New Take on an Old Debate"e; and "e;Turing and the History of Computer Music"e; are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.

Historian David E.

The First Edition of the book is a collection of articles, all by the author, on the Indian mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan as well as on some of the greatest mathematicians in history whose life and works have things in common with Ramanujan.

This volume traces back the history of interaction between the "e;computational"e; or "e;algorithmic"e; aspects of elementary mathematics and mathematics education throughout ages.

Mathematical correspondence offers a rich heritage for the history of mathematics and science, as well as cultural history and other areas.

The primary purpose of this textbook is to introduce the reader to a wide variety of elementary permutation statistical methods.

Indian Mathematics gives a unique insight into the history of mathematics within a historical global context.

This handbook features essays written by both literary scholars and mathematicians that examine multiple facets of the connections between literature and mathematics.

The theories of V.

Science, with its inherent tension between the known and the unknown, is an inexhaustible mine of great stories.

This textbook develops the abstract algebra necessary to prove the impossibility of four famous mathematical feats: squaring the circle, trisecting the angle, doubling the cube, and solving quintic equations.

The first history of postwar mathematics, offering a new interpretation of the rise of abstraction and axiomatics in the twentieth century.

This book offers an alternative to current philosophy of mathematics: heuristic philosophy of mathematics.

This text presents the ideas of a particular group of mathematicians of the late 18th century known as "e;the German combinatorial school"e; and its influence.

This volume offers English translations of three early works by Ernst Schroder (1841-1902), a mathematician and logician whose philosophical ruminations and pathbreaking contributions to algebraic logic attracted the admiration and ire of figures such as Dedekind, Frege, Husserl, and C.

This volume contains eleven papers that have been collected by the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/Societe canadienne d'histoire et de philosophie des mathematiques.

Missionaries, and in particular the Portuguese Assistancy of the Society of Jesus, played a fundamental role in the dissemination of Western scientific knowledge in East Asia.

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

This publication includes an unabridged and annotated translation of two works by Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728-1777) written in the 1760s: Vorlaufige Kenntnisse fur die, so die Quadratur und Rectification des Circuls suchen and Memoire sur quelques proprietes remarquables des quantites transcendentes circulaires et logarithmiques.

This book addresses the material devices used to represent and manipulate numerical concepts.

This volume is an original collection of articles by 44 leading mathematicians on the theme of the future of the discipline.