History of mathematics books

In the year 1889 Sofya Vasilievna Kovalevskaya, Profes- sor of Mathematics at the University of Stockholm, pub-...  Read More >>

Covering both the history of mathematics and of philosophy, Descartes's Mathematical Thought reconstructs the intellectual...  Read More >>

(Anonym, circa 1996-97) The first idea to write a book on M athematical Economics, more or less ordered in a historical...  Read More >>

Offering an account of Lagrangian mechanics, this work uses the Principle of Virtual Work in conjunction with the...  Read More >>

Based on the latest historical research, Worlds Out of Nothing is the first book to provide a course on the history...  Read More >>

 Read More >>

Deals with the development of the terms of analysis in the 18th and 19th centuries, the two main concepts being...  Read More >>

During the past 25 years, set theory has developed in several interesting directions. Amongst topics treated are...  Read More >>

In 1915 and 1916 Emmy Noether was asked by Felix Klein and David Hilbert to assist them in understanding issues...  Read More >>

 Read More >>

 Read More >>

Modern mechanics was forged in the seventeenth century from materials inherited from Antiquity and transformed in...  Read More >>

 Read More >>

This book documents the history of pi from the dawn of mathematical time to the present. The articles include selections...  Read More >>

This translation offers a reconstruction of De Practica Geometrie as the author judges Fibonacci wrote it, thereby...  Read More >>

The book is the first English translation of John Wallis's Arithmetica Infinitorum (1656), a key text on the seventeenth-century...  Read More >>

 Read More >>

Viewed as a flashpoint of the Scientific Revolution, early modern astronomy witnessed a virtual explosion of ideas...  Read More >>

This book demonstrates how the drama of Shakespeare, Dekker, Jonson, and others cannot be adequately explained without...  Read More >>

 Read More >>

Intellectual History and the Identity of John Dee In April 1995, at Birkbeck College, University of London, an interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

This book presents the Riemann Hypothesis, connected problems, and a taste of the body of theory developed towards...  Read More >>

Counters historiographies that search for the origins of modern science within the experimental practices of Europe's...  Read More >>

Covers the theme of the interaction between mathematics, physics and philosophy during the beginning of the 20th...  Read More >>

In Infinite Ascent, David Berlinski, the acclaimed author of The Advent of the Algorithm, A Tour of the Calculus,...  Read More >>