History of mathematics books

3946 books were found.

Adventures In Recreational Mathematics - Volume I

Adventures In Recreational Mathematics - Volume I

Author: David Singmaster (London South Bank Univ, Uk)
ISBN: 9789811226502
Format: Paperback
$90.56

David Singmaster believes in the presentation and teaching of mathematics as recreation. When the Rubik's Cube took...  Read More >>

Adventures In Recreational Mathematics - Volume Ii

Adventures In Recreational Mathematics - Volume Ii

Author: David Singmaster (London South Bank Univ, Uk)
ISBN: 9789811226519
Format: Paperback
$64.69

David Singmaster believes in the presentation and teaching of mathematics as recreation. When the Rubik's Cube took...  Read More >>

Adventures In Recreational Mathematics (In 2 Volumes)

Adventures In Recreational Mathematics (In 2 Volumes)...

Author: David Singmaster (London South Bank Univ, Uk)
ISBN: 9789811226304
Format: Paperback
$116.44

David Singmaster believes in the presentation and teaching of mathematics as recreation. When the Rubik's Cube took...  Read More >>

Adventures In Recreational Mathematics - Volume I

Adventures In Recreational Mathematics - Volume I

Author: David Singmaster (London South Bank Univ, Uk)
ISBN: 9789811226007
Format: Hardback
$181.13

David Singmaster believes in the presentation and teaching of mathematics as recreation. When the Rubik's Cube took...  Read More >>

Adventures In Recreational Mathematics - Volume Ii

Adventures In Recreational Mathematics - Volume Ii

Author: David Singmaster (London South Bank Univ, Uk)
ISBN: 9789811226038
Format: Hardback
$168.19

David Singmaster believes in the presentation and teaching of mathematics as recreation. When the Rubik's Cube took...  Read More >>

Adventures In Recreational Mathematics (In 2 Volumes)

Adventures In Recreational Mathematics (In 2 Volumes)...

Author: David Singmaster (London South Bank Univ, Uk)
ISBN: 9789811225642
Format: Hardback
$258.75

David Singmaster believes in the presentation and teaching of mathematics as recreation. When the Rubik's Cube took...  Read More >>

Modes de l'Analyse Et Formes de la Geometrie

Modes de l'Analyse Et Formes de la Geometrie

Author: Marco Panza
ISBN: 9782711630356
Format: Paperback
$121.44

Longtemps la geometrie, science de la quantite continue, fut opposee a l'arithmetique, science de la quantite discrete....  Read More >>

Curves for the Mathematically Curious: An Anthology of the Unpredictable, Historical, Beautiful, and Romantic

Curves for the Mathematically Curious: An Anthology...

Author: Julian Havil
ISBN: 9780691206134
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Curves for the Mathematically Curious is a thoughtfully curated collection of ten mathematical curves, selected...  Read More >>

Tales of Impossibility: The 2000-Year Quest to Solve the Mathematical Problems of Antiquity

Tales of Impossibility: The 2000-Year Quest to Solve...

Author: David S. Richeson
ISBN: 9780691218724
Format: Paperback
$39.99

A comprehensive look at four of the most famous problems in mathematics  Read More >>

An Invitation to Abstract Mathematics

An Invitation to Abstract Mathematics

Author: Béla Bajnok
ISBN: 9783030561765
Format: Paperback
$116.41

Presenting historical perspective and notes on important figures in mathematics, covering current activity in the...  Read More >>

99 Variations on a Proof

99 Variations on a Proof

Author: Philip Ording
ISBN: 9780691218977
Format: Paperback
$34.99

An exploration of mathematical style through 99 different proofs of the same theoremThis book offers a multifaceted...  Read More >>

In Pursuit of Zeta-3: The World's Most Mysterious Unsolved Math Problem

In Pursuit of Zeta-3: The World's Most Mysterious Unsolved...

Author: Paul Nahin
ISBN: 9780691206073
Format: Hardback
$39.99

For centuries, mathematicians the world over have tried, and failed, to solve the zeta-3 problem. Math genius Leonhard...  Read More >>

Thinking About Space and Time: 100 Years of Applying and Interpreting General Relativity

Thinking About Space and Time: 100 Years of Applying...

Author: Claus Beisbart ,  Tilman Sauer
ISBN: 9783030477844
Format: Paperback
$343.17

This volume offers an integrated understanding of how the theory of general relativity gained momentum after Einstein...  Read More >>

Elements of Mathematics: A Problem-Centered Approach to History and Foundations

Elements of Mathematics: A Problem-Centered Approach...

Author: Gabor Toth
ISBN: 9783030750503
Format: Hardback
$142.29

This textbook offers a rigorous presentation of mathematics before the advent of calculus. Fundamental concepts...  Read More >>

Mathematics, Administrative and Economic Activities in Ancient Worlds

Mathematics, Administrative and Economic Activities...

Author: Cécile Michel ,  Karine Chemla
ISBN: 9783030483913
Format: Paperback
$422.37

This book focuses on the ancient Near East, early imperial China, South-East Asia, and medieval Europe, shedding...  Read More >>

Paul Lorenzen -- Mathematician and Logician

Paul Lorenzen -- Mathematician and Logician

Author: Gerhard Heinzmann ,  Gereon Wolters
ISBN: 9783030658267
Format: Paperback
$90.54

This open access book examines the many contributions of Paul Lorenzen, an outstanding philosopher from the latter...  Read More >>

Ramanujan's Place in the World of Mathematics: Essays Providing a Comparative Study

Ramanujan's Place in the World of Mathematics: Essays...

Author: Krishnaswami Alladi
ISBN: 9789811562402
Format: Hardback
$284.60

The First Edition of the book is a collection of articles, all by the author, on the Indian mathematical genius...  Read More >>

Louis Couturat: The History of Modern Symbolic Logic and Other French Manuscripts

Louis Couturat: The History of Modern Symbolic Logic...

Author: Oliver Schlaudt ,  Anne-Francoise Schmid
ISBN: 9783030848279
Format: Hardback
$310.47

This volume features a critical edition of the recently rediscovered manuscripts written by the French philosopher...  Read More >>

Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science

Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis...

Author: Aubrey Clayton ,  Tim H Dixon
ISBN: 9781713651062
Format: Audio
$79.17

Aubrey Clayton traces the history of the flaw that underlies modern statistics, beginning with the seventeenth-century...  Read More >>

Vagueness in the Exact Sciences: Impacts in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Medicine, Engineering and Computing

Vagueness in the Exact Sciences: Impacts in Mathematics,...

Author: Apostolos Syropoulos ,  Basil K. Papadopoulos
ISBN: 9783110704181
Format: Paperback
$178.54

The book starts with the assumption that vagueness is a fundamental property of this world. From a philosophical...  Read More >>

Dynamis: Ontology of the Incommensurable

Dynamis: Ontology of the Incommensurable

Author: Gaetano Chiurazzi ,  Robert T. Valgenti
ISBN: 9783030690045
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book offers a new and original hypothesis on the origin of modal ontology, whose roots can be traced back to...  Read More >>

Collineations and Conic Sections: An Introduction to Projective Geometry in its History

Collineations and Conic Sections: An Introduction to...

Author: Christopher Baltus
ISBN: 9783030462895
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This volume combines an introduction to central collineations with an introduction to projective geometry, set in...  Read More >>

Ruggiero Boscovich’s Theory of Natural Philosophy: Points, Distances, Determinations

Ruggiero Boscovich’s Theory of Natural Philosophy: Points,...

Author: Luca Guzzardi
ISBN: 9783030520953
Format: Paperback
$369.57

Drawing on published works, correspondence and manuscripts, this book offers the most comprehensive reconstruction...  Read More >>

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