History of mathematics books

3946 books were found.

Against All Odds: Women’s Ways to Mathematical Research Since 1800

Against All Odds: Women’s Ways to Mathematical Research...

Author: Eva Kaufholz-Soldat ,  Nicola M.R. Oswald
ISBN: 9783030476090
Format: Hardback
$448.77

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

Mage Merlin's Unsolved Mathematical Mysteries

Mage Merlin's Unsolved Mathematical Mysteries

Author: Satyan Linus Devadoss ,  Matthew Harvey
ISBN: 9780262044080
Format: Hardback
$59.99

Sixteen of today's greatest unsolved mathematical puzzles in a story-driven, illustrated volume that invites readers...  Read More >>

Pluses and Minuses: How Math Solves Our Problems

Pluses and Minuses: How Math Solves Our Problems

Author: Stefan Buijsman
ISBN: 9780143134589
Format: Paperback
$44.88

First published in the Netherlands by De Bezige Bij as Plussen en minnen in 2018.  Read More >>

Can Mathematics Be Proved Consistent?: Gödel's Shorthand Notes & Lectures on Incompleteness

Can Mathematics Be Proved Consistent?: Gödel's Shorthand...

Author: Jan von Plato
ISBN: 9783030508753
Format: Hardback
$158.37

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

Science and hypothesis

Science and hypothesis

Author: H Poincaré
ISBN: 9789354041419
Format: Paperback
$27.09

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms...  Read More >>

Decoding the Lost World of the Maya

Decoding the Lost World of the Maya

Author: Lindsay Robert McAuley
ISBN: 9780980697551
Format: Paperback
$51.23

This book explores evidence the designers of the Temple of Kukulkan in Chichen Itza, Mexico used a single unit of...  Read More >>

Mathematical Milestones: Nature, Science, Business, Computers and Artificial Intelligence

Mathematical Milestones: Nature, Science, Business,...

Author: Clement Falbo
ISBN: 9781087884127
Format: Paperback
$67.27

This is an expository book emphasizing the progress of mathematics and its uses. From my treatment in this book...  Read More >>

Iamblichus: On the General Science of Mathematics

Iamblichus: On the General Science of Mathematics

Author: John Dillon ,  Professor J.O. Urmson
ISBN: 9781350127647
Format: Hardback
$200.00

On the General Science of Mathematics is the third of four surviving works out of ten by Iamblichus (c. 245 CE–early...  Read More >>

What's Next?: The Mathematical Legacy of William P. Thurston

What's Next?: The Mathematical Legacy of William P....

Author: Dylan Thurston
ISBN: 9780691167770
Format: Paperback
$135.00

William Thurston (1946-2012) was one of the great mathematicians of the twentieth century. He was a visionary whose...  Read More >>

What's Next?: The Mathematical Legacy of William P. Thurston

What's Next?: The Mathematical Legacy of William P....

Author: Dylan Thurston
ISBN: 9780691167763
Format: Hardback
$290.00

William Thurston (1946-2012) was one of the great mathematicians of the twentieth century. He was a visionary whose...  Read More >>

Introduction to mathematical philosophy

Introduction to mathematical philosophy

Author: Bertrand Russell
ISBN: 9789354033988
Format: Paperback
$24.35

First published in 1919, Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy shows Russell drawing on his formidable knowledge...  Read More >>

Logic, Language, and Mathematics: Themes from the Philosophy of Crispin Wright

Logic, Language, and Mathematics: Themes from the Philosophy...

Author: Professor of Philosophy Alexander Miller (University of Otago)
ISBN: 9780191881442
Format: Undefined
$237.60

Crispin Wright is widely recognised as one of the most important and influential analytic philosophers of the twentieth...  Read More >>

Mathematical Adventures

Mathematical Adventures

Author: Ioanna Georgiou ,  Asuka Young
ISBN: 9781907550201
Format: Paperback
$36.10

This book gives us a glimpse into how mathematics started and evolved, and how it can help us from simple measurements...  Read More >>

Rechenbuch: Griechisch - Deutsch

Rechenbuch: Griechisch - Deutsch

Author: Planudes ,  Kai Brodersen
ISBN: 9783110711929
Format: Hardback
$121.41

Maximos Planudes, ein klassisch gebildeter Gelehrter und Lehrer des 13. Jahrhunderts, präsentiert in seinem ""Rechenbuch...  Read More >>

Great Breakthroughs in Mathematics: From Counting to Chaos Theory - How Numbers Changed the World

Great Breakthroughs in Mathematics: From Counting to...

Author: Robert Snedden (Author)
ISBN: 9781838572884
Format: Hardback
$31.02

From early humans carving notches in bones to the discovery of quantum mechanics, mathematics has certainly come...  Read More >>

An Anthropology of Puzzles: The Role of Puzzles in the Origins and Evolution of Mind and Culture

An Anthropology of Puzzles: The Role of Puzzles in the...

Author: Marcel Danesi (University of Toronto Canada)
ISBN: 9781501365430
Format: Paperback
$105.47

An Anthropology of Puzzles argues that the human brain is a puzzling organ which allows humans to literally solve...  Read More >>

Salomon Maimon’s Theory of Invention: Scientific Genius, Analysis and Euclidean Geometry

Salomon Maimon’s Theory of Invention: Scientific Genius,...

Author: Idit Chikurel
ISBN: 9783110691337
Format: Hardback
$171.51

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Mathematics: From Creating the Pyramids to Exploring Infinity

Mathematics: From Creating the Pyramids to Exploring...

Author: Anne Rooney
ISBN: 9781838576455
Format: Paperback
$34.29

In order to understand the universe you must know the language in which it is written. And that language is mathematics....  Read More >>

The Geometry of Universal Mind - Volume Three

The Geometry of Universal Mind - Volume Three

Author: Bob Mustin
ISBN: 9781649454096
Format: Paperback
$55.06

This book explores the nexus between pure consciousness and the material world. Since this is such a transition,...  Read More >>

Language, Logic, and Mathematics in Schopenhauer

Language, Logic, and Mathematics in Schopenhauer

Author: Jens Lemanski
ISBN: 9783030330897
Format: Hardback
$263.97

The chapters in this timely volume aim to answer the growing interest in Arthur Schopenhauer’s logic, mathematics,...  Read More >>

Morality and Mathematics

Morality and Mathematics

Author: Justin Clarke-Doane (Columbia University)
ISBN: 9780191862274
Format: Undefined
$158.40

"To what extent are the subjects of our thoughts and talk real? This is the question of realism. In this book, Justin...  Read More >>

Cyfri’n Cewri: Hanes Mawrion ein Mathemateg

Cyfri’n Cewri: Hanes Mawrion ein Mathemateg

Author: Gareth Roberts
ISBN: 9781786835949
Format: Paperback
$31.02

Darganfyddwch pam y mae mathemateg yn rhan naturiol a phwysig o’n diwylliant, yn gyfochrog â chanu a barddoni, a...  Read More >>

Leibniz: Dissertation on Combinatorial Art

Leibniz: Dissertation on Combinatorial Art

Author: Massimo Mugnai (Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa) ,  Han van Ruler (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
ISBN: 9780198837954
Format: Hardback
$131.95

This is the first full English translation, with a critical introduction and a comprehensive commentary, of the...  Read More >>

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