History of mathematics books

<p>This book describes Italian mathematics in the period between the two World Wars. We analyze its development...  Read More >>

<p>In addition to mathematicians, this book is intended for a more general audience, for teachers and for researchers,...  Read More >>

<p>The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) has within its almost 50-year-old history become the most popular...  Read More >>

Das Buch zeigt, inwiefern nicht, wie man üblicherweise sagt, die Arithmetik, Logik und Mengenlehre, sondern die...  Read More >>

<p>A charming memoir by a leading mathematician of our day. V.I. Arnold is renowned for achievements in mathematics,...  Read More >>

<p> Topics in Commutative Ring Theory is a textbook for advanced undergraduate students as well as graduate students...  Read More >>

Every day, we produce loads of data about ourselves just by living in the modern world. Now, a group of mathematicians...  Read More >>

Every day, we produce loads of data about ourselves just by living in the modern world. Now, a group of mathematicians...  Read More >>

<p>This book contains several contributions on the most outstanding events in the development of twentieth century...  Read More >>

Suitable for sinologists and mathematicians alike, this book is made up of two parts, the first devoted to general,...  Read More >>

The square root of 2 is a fascinating number if a little less famous than such mathematical stars as pi, the number...  Read More >>

<p>The problem of approximating a given quantity is one of the oldest challenges faced by mathematicians. Its increasing...  Read More >>

In 1690, Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695) published Traite de la Lumiere, containing his renowned wave theory of light....  Read More >>

This book explores the history of abstract algebra. It shows how...  Read More >>

<p>This is the story of a remarkable private tutor, William Hopkins, and the education and careers of his students:...  Read More >>

Since its publication, C.F. Gauss's Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (1801) has acquired an almost mythical reputation,...  Read More >>

An Unabridged, Digitally Enlarged Printing Of The Fourth Edition - Designed For The Scholarship Standard University...  Read More >>

Biographers of Sir Isaac Newton make particular mention of five mathematical books which he read while a young student...  Read More >>

One of the most important mathematical theorems is named after Pythagoras of Samos, but this semi-mythical Greek...  Read More >>

Wir begegnen Poincaré, Lorentz und Hilbert, Boltzmann und Bohr, Minkowski, Planck, de Broglie, Hubble und Weyl,...  Read More >>

A symbol of the Divine, a good luck charm, a cosmogram of the world order, a template for fengshui - through the...  Read More >>

More a prehistory of invention and a biography of ideas and their originators than an exposition of technological...  Read More >>

A reconstruction of linguistic innovations in the history of mathematics that argues for at least three ways in...  Read More >>

With logicism and formalism, intuitionism is one of the main foundations for mathematics proposed in the twentieth...  Read More >>

An Unabridged, Digitally Enlarged History Of The Equation; Table Of Solutions From A = 1,5001 To A = 1,700, Bibliography...  Read More >>