History of mathematics books

This monograph examines the private annotations that Ludwig Wittgenstein made to his copy of G.H. Hardy’s classic...  Read More >>

The book offers a collection of essays on various aspects of Leibniz’s scientific thought, written by historians...  Read More >>

Colerus ist der berufene Autor, der die Epochen der Mathematik darzustellen vermag. Nur er hat die Gabe, wissenschaftliche...  Read More >>

This captivating book provides an introduction to fundamental results of discrete mathematics through the work of...  Read More >>

This is a volume of chapters on the historical study of information, computing, and society written by seven of...  Read More >>

It focuses on the 18th century, which has often been considered uninteresting for the history of science, representing...  Read More >>

This captivating book provides an introduction to fundamental results of discrete mathematics through the work of...  Read More >>

"The book presents a critical edition of two Arabic-Hebrew translations of Euclid's Elements, Books I–II, by Moses...  Read More >>

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

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This book deals with the general concepts in stereotomy and its connection with descriptive geometry, the social...  Read More >>

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‘An astonishingly readable and informative history of the greatest mathematical bestseller of all time … The writing...  Read More >>

This book presents an overview of the ways in which women have been able to conduct mathematical research since...  Read More >>

Kurt Gödel (1906–1978) shook the mathematical world in 1931 by a result that has become an icon of 20th century...  Read More >>

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This volume gathers high quality and innovative essays on the history of mathematics from ancient to modern times...  Read More >>

If you, too, are the kind of person who often asks themselves things like whether dogs can do sums, how to calculate...  Read More >>

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Dieses Werk gibt einen UEberblick uber die Geschichte des Zahlens, sowohl in mathematischen oder philosophischen...  Read More >>

The aim of this monograph is to describe Greek mathematics as a literary product, studying its style from a logico-syntactic...  Read More >>

Few people have changed the world like the Nobel Prize winners. Each of them has a unique story to tell, combining...  Read More >>

The Doctrine of Triangles offers an interdisciplinary history of trigonometry that spans four centuries, starting...  Read More >>