History of mathematics books

Presents an outline of mathematics and its history, with particular emphasis on events that shook up its philosophy....  Read More >>

The history of mathematics is filled with major breakthroughs resulting from solutions to recreational problems....  Read More >>

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A new biography of Thomas Harriot, the greatest unknown scientific mind of the Renaissance  Read More >>

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Classic survey chronicles the development of the Japanese mathematics: use of the abacus; application of counting...  Read More >>

This volume is a record of an individual attempt to construct numerical models of the cubic surface, founded on...  Read More >>

This book covers the works of Bhāskara, in particular, his monumental treatise on astronomy, the Siddhāntaśiromaṇi,...  Read More >>

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

In Abbott's satire on Victorian culture, the narrator, A. Square, resides in the two-dimensional world of Flatland....  Read More >>

Books are still among the most important cultural achievements of humanity. Their invention was as important as...  Read More >>

In Abbott's satire on Victorian culture, the narrator, A. Square, resides in the two-dimensional world of Flatland....  Read More >>

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Was mathematics invented or discovered? Why do we have negative numbers? How much math does a pineapple know? Think...  Read More >>

This volume contains 17 mathematical works by Johann Bernoulli, written between 1680 – when he was only 13 years...  Read More >>

Documents the calculation, numerical value, and use of the ratio from 2000 B.C. to the modern computer age, detailing...  Read More >>

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The history of pi, says the author, though a small part of the history of mathematics, is nevertheless a mirror...  Read More >>

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Otto Blumenthals Karriere war geprägt von Glück und Tragik. Er wirkte fast drei Jahrzehnte an der Technischen Hochschule...  Read More >>

Why did Florence Nightingale introduce pie charts? How did Lewis Carroll regard Pythagoras? Who learned calculus...  Read More >>

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This book is a complete English translation of Augustin-Louis Cauchy's historic 1823 text (his first devoted to...  Read More >>

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