History of mathematics

A History of Mathematics Education during the Twentieth Century describes the history of mathematics education in the United States with conceptual themes concerning philosophy, mathematics content, teacher education, pedagogy, and assessment.

This monumental book traces the origins and development of mathematics in the ancient Middle East, from its earliest beginnings in the fourth millennium BCE to the end of indigenous intellectual culture in the second century BCE when cuneiform writing was gradually abandoned.

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This collection of refereed papers celebrates the contributions, achievements, and progress of female mathematicians, mostly in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

A sophisticated, original introduction to the philosophy of mathematics from one of its leading contemporary scholarsMathematics is one of humanity's most successful yet puzzling endeavors.

This book offers an excursion through the developmental area of research mathematics.

A Divine Language: One Man's Second Attempt at Understanding the Universal Mysteries of MathA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice"e;Wilkinson has accomplished something more moving and original, braiding his stumbling attempts to get better at math with his deepening awareness that there's an entire universe of understanding that will, in some fundamental sense, forever lie outside his reach.

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

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

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.

How two pioneers of math and technology ushered in the computer revolutionBoolean algebra, also called Boolean logic, is at the heart of the electronic circuitry in everything we use-from our computers and cars, to home appliances.

Key Issues ver since the late 1970s when Pia Holdt, a student of mine at the time, and Jed Buchwald, a colleague normally working in another field, made E me aware of how fascinating the history of perspective constructions is, I have wanted to know more.

The main focus of this unique book is an in-depth examination of the polygonal technique; the primary method used by master artists of the past in creating Islamic geometric patterns.

In this well-illustrated book the authors, Sinan Kanbir, Ken Clements, and Nerida Ellerton, tackle a persistent, and universal, problem in school mathematics-why do so many middle-school and secondary-school students find it difficult to learn algebra well?

This book offers a unique account on the life and works of Srinivasa Ramanujan-often hailed as the greatest "e;natural"e; mathematical genius.

In A Time of Novelty, Samuel Wright re-envisions the relationship between philosophy and history in premodern India.

Dieses Buch macht einen Spaziergang durch die vielfältige Welt der Zahl Drei.

This book tells the story of the Riemann hypothesis for function fields (or curves) starting with Artin's 1921 thesis, covering Hasse's work in the 1930s on elliptic fields and more, and concluding with Weil's final proof in 1948.

In 1503, for the first time, a student in Paris was able to spend his entire university career studying only the printed textbooks of his teacher, thanks to the works of the humanist and university reformer Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples (c.

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.

The focus of this book is on the birth and historical development of permutation statistical methods from the early 1920s to the near present.

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

This book argues that Descartes' physics was a milestone on the road to modern mathematical physics.

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

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

In this book, the author pays tribute to Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866), mathematician with revolutionary ideas, whose work on the theory of integration, the Fourier transform, the hypergeometric differential equation, etc.

From the reviews of the first edition: "e;There are many books on the history of mathematics in which mathematics is subordinated to history.

Who first presented Pascal's triangle?

This is the story of the intellectual and social life of a community, and of its interactions with the wider world.

During Song (960 to 1279) and Yuan (1279 to 1368) dynasties, China experienced a peak in high-level algebraic investigation through the works of famous mathematicians such as Qin Jiushao, Zhu Shijie, Yang Hui and Li Ye.

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?

Lazare Carnot was the unique example in the history of science of someone who inadvertently owed the scientific recognition he eventually achieved to earlier political prominence.

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This book gives a remarkably fine account of the influences mathematics has exerted on the development of philosophy, the physical sciences, religion, and the arts in Western life.

Beginning in 1983, the Swedish Council for Planning and Coordination of Research has organized an annual workshop devoted to some aspect of the behavior and modeling of complex systems.

Currently, nonstandard analysis is barely considered in university teaching.

This work explains the underfunding of early insurance and annuity schemes, and proposes a new view of how actuarial science developed as a discipline.

This book explains the development of theoretical computer science in its early stages, specifically from 1965 to 1990.

This sourcebook presents an extensive look at cultural number systems in numeracy and writing systems.

The Hindu-Arabic numeral system (1, 2, 3,.

Every age and every culture has relied on the incorporation of mathematics in their works of architecture to imbue the built environment with meaning and order.