History of mathematics books

A biography of the polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz told through seven critical days spanning his life and revealing...  Read More >>

A Treatise on the Theory of Invariants, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history,...  Read More >>

"A theoretical physicist takes readers on an awe-inspiring journey-found in ""no other book"" (Science)-to discover...  Read More >>

From zero to infinity, this entertaining hardback guide opens up a new world of knowledge based on the magic of...  Read More >>

This revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of mathematics is as entertaining as it...  Read More >>

The study of nonlinear optimization is both fundamental and a key course for applied mathematics, operations research,...  Read More >>

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COUNT? WHY ARE HUMANS THE ONLY SPECIES ON EARTH THAT CAN DO IT? WHERE DID COUNTING COME FROM?...  Read More >>

This book both articulates and responds to increasing scholarly interest in the materiality of the book. Taking...  Read More >>

Albert Einstein realized his General Theory of Relativity-the foundation underlying our contemporary theory of gravity...  Read More >>

Open a new portal into Shakespeare's words--and his Renaissance life--with math and numbers as your key.  Read More >>

This book opens the case on collaboration among mathematicians and mathematics educators. The authors of this book...  Read More >>

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This book treats eighteenth-century Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico’s theory of poetic logic for the first...  Read More >>

The existence of the Italian abacus and German cossic algebra is at most taken note of but they are not read, leading...  Read More >>

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The Infinite Enigma: Unraveling the Boundless Complexities of Existence, or, The Book of Ultimate Complexity is...  Read More >>

This volume, originally published in China and translated into four other languages, presents a fascinating and...  Read More >>

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Sobald Sie sich eingehender mit der Geschichte der Mathematik beschäftigen, werden Sie auch auf Personen stoßen,...  Read More >>

Kurt Gödel (1906-1978) gained world-wide fame by his incompleteness theorem of 1931. Later, he set as his aim to...  Read More >>

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COUNT? WHY ARE HUMANS THE ONLY SPECIES ON EARTH THAT CAN DO IT? WHERE DID COUNTING COME FROM?...  Read More >>

This monograph meticulously examines the contributions of French mathematician Michel Chasles to 19th-century geometry....  Read More >>

This volume brings together scholars across various domains of the history and philosophy of mathematics, investigating...  Read More >>

A celebration of the seemingly simple idea that allowed us to imagine the world in new dimensions - sparking both...  Read More >>

Numbers, weights, and measurements, and the systems underpinning them, have always been a fundamental part of human...  Read More >>