History of mathematics books

The Sumerians were not the only ones to create remarkably accurate standards of measurement in the Ancient world....  Read More >>

Grandes ideas, explicaciones sencillas Escrito en un lenguaje accesible, El libro de las matemáticas presenta explicaciones...  Read More >>

This open access book explores commentaries on an influential text of pre-Copernican astronomy in Europe.  Read More >>

The history of a controversial but important number begins with its inventors, the Babylonians, and follows its...  Read More >>

The history of a controversial but important number begins with its inventors, the Babylonians, and follows its...  Read More >>

The history of a controversial but important number begins with its inventors, the Babylonians, and follows its...  Read More >>

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Vedic Mathematics is a method of calculation used by sages in ancient times, The Magic of Vedic Mathematics is a...  Read More >>

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

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

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

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

Walter William Rouse Ball (1850-1925) was an English mathematician best known for his popular books on the History...  Read More >>

Euclid’s Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces...  Read More >>

Euclid’s Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces...  Read More >>

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*** This is the black and white edition. There is also a color edition. *** In the early 17th century, both Jost...  Read More >>

The recently discovered Arabic translation of an anonymous ancient treatise describing advanced methods for constructing...  Read More >>

This book seeks to explore the history of descriptive geometry in relation to its circulation in the 19th century,...  Read More >>

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

The science of magic squares witnessed an important development in the Islamic world during the Middle Ages, with...  Read More >>

The primary purpose of this textbook is to introduce the reader to a wide variety of elementary permutation statistical...  Read More >>

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