History of mathematics books

3946 books were found.

Writings for the Companion to the British Almanac 1831 - 1857

Writings for the Companion to the British Almanac 1831...

Author: Augustus de Morgan ,  Gary Menchen
ISBN: 9798985556605
Format: Paperback
$59.49

This volume collects, for the first time, in photographic reproduction, all of De Morgan's essays for the Companion...  Read More >>

The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann

The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John...

Author: Ananyo Bhattacharya
ISBN: 9781324003991
Format: Hardback
$79.20

An electrifying biography of one of the most extraordinary scientists of the twentieth century and the world he...  Read More >>

Emmy Noether – Mathematician Extraordinaire

Emmy Noether – Mathematician Extraordinaire

Author: David E. Rowe
ISBN: 9783030638122
Format: Paperback
$284.60

Although she was famous as the ""mother of modern algebra,"" Emmy Noether’s life and work have never been the subject...  Read More >>

Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Society in Nineteenth Century Britain

Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Society in Nineteenth...

Author: Lawrence Goldman (Emeritus Fellow, Emeritus Fellow, St. Peter's College, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780192847744
Format: Hardback
$112.53

A defining feature of Victorian Britain was its fascination with statistics, and this study shows how data influenced...  Read More >>

Leibniz Et La Methode de la Science

Leibniz Et La Methode de la Science

Author: Francois Duchesneau
ISBN: 9782711630127
Format: Paperback
$118.80

Leibniz (1646-1716), philosophe et homme de science, invente le calcul infinitesimal, cree la dynamique et pose...  Read More >>

Research Schools on Number Theory in India: During the 20th Century

Research Schools on Number Theory in India: During the...

Author: Purabi Mukherji
ISBN: 9789811596223
Format: Paperback
$77.60

This book is an attempt to describe the gradual development of the major schools of research on number theory in...  Read More >>

The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and Mathematics

The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and Mathematics...

Author: Robert Tubbs ,  Alice Jenkins
ISBN: 9783030554804
Format: Paperback
$527.97

This handbook features essays written by both literary scholars and mathematicians that examine multiple facets...  Read More >>

Oxford's Savilian Professors of Geometry: The First 400 Years

Oxford's Savilian Professors of Geometry: The First...

Author: Robin Wilson (Emeritus Professor of Pure Mathematics, Emeritus Professor of Pure Mathematics, Open University and Emeritus Professor of Geometry, Gresham College, London)
ISBN: 9780198869030
Format: Hardback
$230.29

To celebrate the 400th anniversary of the founding of the geometry chair, a meeting was held at the Bodleian Library...  Read More >>

The Art of More: How Mathematics Created Civilization

The Art of More: How Mathematics Created Civilization...

Author: Michael Brooks
ISBN: 9781524748999
Format: Hardback
$73.92

"""Originally published in paperback in Australia by Scribe Publications, Melbourne, and in hardcover in Great Britain...  Read More >>

Kurt Gödel: The Princeton Lectures on Intuitionism

Kurt Gödel: The Princeton Lectures on Intuitionism

Author: Maria Hämeen-Anttila ,  Jan von Plato
ISBN: 9783030872953
Format: Hardback
$258.72

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

Understand Mathematics, Understand Computing: Discrete Mathematics That All Computing Students Should Know

Understand Mathematics, Understand Computing: Discrete...

Author: Arnold L. Rosenberg ,  Denis Trystram
ISBN: 9783030583781
Format: Paperback
$142.29

In this book the authors aim to endow the reader with an operational, conceptual, and methodological understanding...  Read More >>

Al-Kashi's Miftah al-Hisab, Volume II: Geometry: Translation and Commentary

Al-Kashi's Miftah al-Hisab, Volume II: Geometry: Translation...

Author: Nuh Aydin ,  Lakhdar Hammoudi
ISBN: 9783030613327
Format: Paperback
$343.17

By sharing al-Kāshī’s most comprehensive work with a wider audience, this book will help establish a more complete...  Read More >>

Symbols and Things: Mathematics in the Age of Steam

Symbols and Things: Mathematics in the Age of Steam...

Author: Kevin Lambert
ISBN: 9780822946830
Format: Hardback
$145.20

An exploration of things and equipment used by eighteenth- and ninteenth-century mathematicians.  Read More >>

Wie der Mensch rechnen lernt(e): Evolutionäre und psychologische Grundlagen der Mathematik

Wie der Mensch rechnen lernt(e): Evolutionäre und psychologische...

Author: Frieder Hermann
ISBN: 9783662639627
Format: Paperback
$65.97

In seinem spannend und auch für Nichtexperten leicht lesbaren Überblick skizziert der Mathematiker Frieder Hermann...  Read More >>

The Discrete Charm of the Machine: Why the World Became Digital

The Discrete Charm of the Machine: Why the World Became...

Author: Ken Steiglitz
ISBN: 9780691229027
Format: Paperback
$32.99

A few short decades ago, we were informed by the smooth signals of analog television and radio -we communicated...  Read More >>

Epsilons and Deltas of Life: Everyday Stories, Volume II

Epsilons and Deltas of Life: Everyday Stories, Volume...

Author: Satish C Bhatnagar
ISBN: 9781956998061
Format: Paperback
$23.26

Dear Professor Satish, Your inspiring reflections have become part of my daily breakfast. Thank you an awful lot....  Read More >>

Mathematician with the Soul of a Poet: Poems and Plays of Sofia Kovalevskaya

Mathematician with the Soul of a Poet: Poems and Plays...

Author: Sofia Kovalevskaya ,  Sandra DeLozier Coleman
ISBN: 9798985029802
Format: Paperback
$41.40

Sofia Kovalevskaya was the first woman to earn a PhD in math and the Prix Bordin, but her poems and plays reveal...  Read More >>

Mathematician with the Soul of a Poet: Poems and Plays of Sofia Kovalevskaya

Mathematician with the Soul of a Poet: Poems and Plays...

Author: Sofia Kovalevskaya ,  Sandra DeLozier Coleman
ISBN: 9798985029819
Format: Hardback
$59.49

Sofia Kovalevskaya was the first woman to earn a PhD in math and the Prix Bordin, but her poems and plays reveal...  Read More >>

Distributivity-like Results in the Medieval Traditions of Euclid's Elements: Between Geometry and Arithmetic

Distributivity-like Results in the Medieval Traditions...

Author: Leo Corry
ISBN: 9783030796785
Format: Paperback
$142.29

This book provides a fresh view on an important and largely overlooked aspect of the Euclidean traditions in the...  Read More >>

Geschichte der Mathematik in ihren Kontexten: Neue Zugänge

Geschichte der Mathematik in ihren Kontexten: Neue Zugänge...

Author: Gert Schubring
ISBN: 9783030694821
Format: Paperback
$52.77

Dieses Buch ist konzipiert für angehende und praktizierende Mathematiklehrer; es richtet sich aber auch generell...  Read More >>

Martin Kneser Collected Works

Martin Kneser Collected Works

Author: Ulf Rehmann ,  Yuri Tschinkel
ISBN: 9783030816247
Format: Hardback
$580.77

This volume presents the collection of mathematical articles by Martin Kneser, reprinted in the original language...  Read More >>

The Foundations of Computability Theory

The Foundations of Computability Theory

Author: Borut Robič
ISBN: 9783662624234
Format: Paperback
$142.29

The Foundations of Computability Theory  Read More >>

The Renaissance of General Relativity in Context

The Renaissance of General Relativity in Context

Author: Alexander S. Blum ,  Roberto Lalli
ISBN: 9783030507565
Format: Paperback
$369.57

This contributed volume explores the renaissance of general relativity after World War II, when it transformed from...  Read More >>

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