History of mathematics books

John Mighton's JUMP program is changing the way math is taught, and his powerful math workbooks give children the...  Read More >>

A few years ago, in the Wren Library of Trinity College, Cambridge,...  Read More >>

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British mathematician Alan Turing, credited with cracking the German Enigma code during World War II, he died in...  Read More >>

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The sub-collection of mathematical cuneiform texts in the Schøyen Collection makes a substantial addition to the...  Read More >>

For most people, mathematics is an abstraction with little connection to the """"real"""" universe. But some mathematicians...  Read More >>

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Shows how life often works at the extremes - with values becoming as small (or as large) as possible - and how mathematicians...  Read More >>

While taking a class on infinity at Stanford in the 1980s, Ravi Kapoor discovers that he is confronting the same...  Read More >>

Contains the author's Constructive Theory of Partitions, papers on Binary Matrices, and the lectures on the Theory...  Read More >>

Emily Grosholz offers an original investigation of demonstration in mathematics and science, examining how it works...  Read More >>

This book shows Pythagorean Triples are in an infinite series, their relationship to prime numbers and equations...  Read More >>

How do scientific conjectures become laws? Why do some laws turn out to be wrong? Why does proof mean different...  Read More >>

The present volume of the Handbook of the History of Logic brings together two of the most important developments...  Read More >>

An unabridged printing of the 1920 publication, translated from the Latin with extensive notes by J. M. Child, to...  Read More >>

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By any measure, the Pythagorean theorem is the most famous statement in all of mathematics. This work presents the...  Read More >>

It is also the case that a considerable proportion of the readership of the present volume will not be professional...  Read More >>

But the full measure of his mathematical stature became apparent only in 2000 when the sealed envelope containing...  Read More >>

Using an array of published and private sources, Cohen shows how philosophers and mathematicians seized upon the...  Read More >>

Volume 1 of the first authoritative translation of Archimedes' works into English.  Read More >>

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it...  Read More >>