History of mathematics books

3946 books were found.

Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel

Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel...

Author: Stephen Budiansky (Biographer and writer)
ISBN: 9780198866435
Format: Paperback
$45.95

A remarkable account of the brilliant, troubled mathematician and philosopher Kurt Gödel. From his famous Incompleteness...  Read More >>

Mathematics Education in a Neocolonial Country: The Case of Papua New Guinea

Mathematics Education in a Neocolonial Country: The...

Author: Patricia Paraide ,  Kay Owens
ISBN: 9783030909932
Format: Hardback
$284.60

Most education research is undertaken in western developed countries. While some research from developing countries...  Read More >>

Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays

Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays

Author: Bertrand Russell
ISBN: 9789357487702
Format: Paperback
$44.85

Essays on philosophy, religion, science, and mathematics.  Read More >>

Ancient Mathematics: History of Mathematics in Ancient Greece and Hellenism

Ancient Mathematics: History of Mathematics in Ancient...

Author: Dietmar Herrmann
ISBN: 9783662664933
Format: Paperback
$129.35

The volume contains a comprehensive and problem-oriented presentation of ancient Greek mathematics from Thales to...  Read More >>

Cultures of Computation and Quantification in the Ancient World: Numbers, Measurements, and Operations in Documents from Mesopotamia, China and South Asia

Cultures of Computation and Quantification in the Ancient...

Author: Karine Chemla ,  Agathe Keller
ISBN: 9783030983604
Format: Hardback
$362.22

This book sheds light on the variety of mathematical cultures in general. To do so, it concentrates on cultures...  Read More >>

College Mathematics CLEP Test Study Guide

College Mathematics CLEP Test Study Guide

Author: Passyourclass
ISBN: 9781614339700
Format: Hardback
$158.27

Our CLEP study guides are different! The College Mathematics CLEP study guide TEACHES you what you need to know...  Read More >>

Ebene Geometrie

Ebene Geometrie

Author: Kurt Vogel ,  Karin Reich
ISBN: 9783111248820
Format: Hardback
$188.67

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für ""Ebene Geometrie"" verfügbar.  Read More >>

I: Ebene Trigonometrie. II: Sphärik und sphärische Trigonometrie

I: Ebene Trigonometrie. II: Sphärik und sphärische Trigonometrie...

Author: Kurt Vogel ,  Karin Reich
ISBN: 9783111080635
Format: Hardback
$188.67

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für ""I: Ebene Trigonometrie. II: Sphärik und sphärische Trigonometrie"" verfügbar....  Read More >>

Decoding Aristarchus: An investigation into the life and work of Aristarchus of Samos, The Mathematician

Decoding Aristarchus: An investigation into the life...

Author: Alberto Gomez
ISBN: 9783631892619
Format: Hardback
$113.85

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A Journey through the History of Numerical Linear Algebra

A Journey through the History of Numerical Linear Algebra...

Author: Claude Brezinski ,  Gérard Meurant
ISBN: 9781611977226
Format: Hardback
$216.70

Describes the history of numerical methods proposed to solve linear algebra problems, from antiquity to the present...  Read More >>

Underground Mathematics: Craft Culture and Knowledge Production in Early Modern Europe

Underground Mathematics: Craft Culture and Knowledge...

Author: Thomas Morel (Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany)
ISBN: 9781009267304
Format: Hardback
$194.06

Morel tells the story of subterranean geometry, a forgotten discipline that developed in the silver mines of early...  Read More >>

CORE MATHEMATICS PRINCIPLES with over 500 WORKED PROBLEMS: Skills for Senior High School Students

CORE MATHEMATICS PRINCIPLES with over 500 WORKED PROBLEMS:...

Author: Aloysius Aseervatham
ISBN: 9781959493525
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Problem-solving in mathematics is the application of theory and concepts to a given situation. Mastering this skill...  Read More >>

Theory and Practice: A History of Two Centuries of Dutch Mathematics Education

Theory and Practice: A History of Two Centuries of Dutch...

Author: Harm Jan Smid
ISBN: 9783031218729
Format: Hardback
$336.35

This book describes and analyses the history of Dutch mathematics education from the point of view of the changing...  Read More >>

Kurt Gödel: The Princeton Lectures on Intuitionism

Kurt Gödel: The Princeton Lectures on Intuitionism

Author: Maria Hämeen-Anttila ,  Jan von Plato
ISBN: 9783030872984
Format: Paperback
$258.72

Gödel then went on to attack Hilbert's first and second Paris problems, namely Cantor's continuum problem about...  Read More >>

Aus der reinen mathematik: Under der mathematischen physik

Aus der reinen mathematik: Under der mathematischen...

Author: Henri Poincare
ISBN: 9791041940202
Format: Paperback
$50.16

Mathematische Vorlesungen an der Universita t Go ttingen: IV SECHS VORTRA GE U BER AUSGEWA HLTE GEGENSTA NDE...  Read More >>

Plato's Ghost: The Modernist Transformation of Mathematics

Plato's Ghost: The Modernist Transformation of Mathematics...

Author: Jeremy Gray
ISBN: 9780691242040
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Traces the growth of mathematical modernism from its roots in problem solving and theory to its interactions with...  Read More >>

Einstein über Einstein

Einstein über Einstein

Author: Hanoch Gutfreund ,  Jürgen Renn
ISBN: 9783110744682
Format: Paperback
$108.21

This work views Einstein's Autobiographical Notes, a classic in the history of science, as a key to opening up a...  Read More >>

Thinking God's Thoughts: Johannes Kepler and the Miracle of Cosmic Comprehensibility

Thinking God's Thoughts: Johannes Kepler and the Miracle...

Author: Melissa Cain Travis ,  Stephen C Meyer
ISBN: 9781944482763
Format: Paperback
$71.15

Why is the cosmos intellectually accessible to the human mind? A host of philosophers, theologians, scientists,...  Read More >>

Occultism and the Origins of Psychoanalysis: Freud, Ferenczi and the Challenge of Thought Transference

Occultism and the Origins of Psychoanalysis: Freud,...

Author: Maria Pierri ,  Adam Elgar
ISBN: 9781032159553
Format: Paperback
$62.99

Occultism and the Origins of Psychoanalysis traces the origins of key psychoanalytic ideas back to their roots in...  Read More >>

Abstract Algebra and Famous Impossibilities: Squaring the Circle, Doubling the Cube, Trisecting an Angle, and Solving Quintic Equations

Abstract Algebra and Famous Impossibilities: Squaring...

Author: Sidney A. Morris ,  Arthur Jones
ISBN: 9783031056970
Format: Hardback
$142.29

This textbook develops the abstract algebra necessary to prove the impossibility of four famous mathematical feats:...  Read More >>

Gesichter der Mathematik: 111 Porträts und biographische Miniaturen

Gesichter der Mathematik: 111 Porträts und biographische...

Author: Edmund Weitz ,  Heike Stephan
ISBN: 9783662663486
Format: Hardback
$65.97

Es geht also um Mathematik, jedoch (keine Angst!) nicht um die „richtige“ Mathematik mit Formeln und Herleitungen,...  Read More >>

The Theory of Gödel

The Theory of Gödel

Author: Carlo Cellucci
ISBN: 9783031134166
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book presents Gödel’s incompleteness theorems and the other limitative results which are most significant for...  Read More >>

Thrakische Hugel-Architektur Zwischen Balkangebirge Und Agais: Von Der Klassischen Bis Zur Hellenistischen Zeit - Klassifikation, Chronologie Und Entwicklung

Thrakische Hugel-Architektur Zwischen Balkangebirge...

Author: Hristomir Hristov
ISBN: 9783868353563
Format: Hardback
$245.52

Die thrakische Hugel-Architektur der Klassik und des Hellenismus stellt ein bemerkenswertes Phanomen dar, das seine...  Read More >>

Gödel's Theorem: A Very Short Introduction

Gödel's Theorem: A Very Short Introduction

Author: A. W. Moore (Tutorial Fellow at St Hugh's College, and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780192847850
Format: Paperback
$21.95

When Kurt Gödel published his celebrated theorem, showing that no axiomatization can determine the whole truth and...  Read More >>

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