History of mathematics books

Questo numero è dedicato alla figura di Renato Caccioppoli, nel centenario della nascita. Con lui entriamo a contatto...  Read More >>

An account of the fossil skull anatomy and evolutionary significance of the 3.6-3.0 million-year-old early human...  Read More >>

An accessible meditation on the ultimate meaning of mathematics draws on the famous eight-page Riemann Hypothesis...  Read More >>

The Hindu-Arabic numeral system (1, 2, 3,...) is one of mankind's greatest achievements and one of its most commonly...  Read More >>

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The twentieth century was a time of unprecedented development in mathematics, as well as in all sciences: more theorems...  Read More >>

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A bilingual (French and English) edition of the mathematical correspondence between A. Grothendieck and J-P. Serre....  Read More >>

Contains contains a large part of the mathematical correspondence between A Grothendieck and J P Serre. This book...  Read More >>

Presents episodes from the mathematics of medieval Islam, work which has had a great impact on the development of...  Read More >>

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

A mind-bending excursion to the limits of science and mathematicsAre some scientific problems insoluble? In Beyond...  Read More >>

Offers a review of mathematics through the early years of """"The Bulletin of the New York Mathematical Society""""....  Read More >>

Charles Chihara's new book develops and defends a structural view of the nature of mathematics, and uses it to explain...  Read More >>

This book explores the interaction between Europe and East Asia between the 16th and the 18th centuries in the field...  Read More >>

Introduces Arabic numerals and methods in Europe. This title is of interest to historians of science, mathematicians...  Read More >>

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In the 20th century, many mathematicians in Russia made great contributions to the field of mathematics. This invaluable...  Read More >>

In the 20th century, many mathematicians in Russia made great contributions to the field of mathematics. This invaluable...  Read More >>

The oldest known mathematical table was found in the ancient Sumerian city of Shuruppag in southern Iraq. Since...  Read More >>

Per la prima volta sono riuniti e didatticamente rielaborati a fondo in un manuale e in un CD i testi di base della...  Read More >>

Questo numero delle Note, curato da Lorenzo Magnani e da Riccardo Dossena, è dedicato alla ripresentazione del programma...  Read More >>

Statistics have helped shape every area of science. Without the means to analyze critical data, none of the great...  Read More >>