History of mathematics books

This is a popular book that chronicles the historical attempts to prove the fifth postulate of Euclid on parallel...  Read More >>

This is a popular book that chronicles the historical attempts to prove the fifth postulate of Euclid on parallel...  Read More >>

This book starts from a first general observation: there are very diverse ways to frame and convey scientific knowledge...  Read More >>

Discusses the importance of the early history of Greek mathematics to education and civic life through a study of...  Read More >>

This book highlights the role of Sir Asutosh Mookerjee, founder of the Calcutta school of physics and the Calcutta...  Read More >>

This book discusses how and why historical measurement units developed, and reviews useful methods for making conversions...  Read More >>

This book provides a thrilling history of the famous priority dispute between Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Isaac...  Read More >>

Although several mathematical instruments of the first importance are contained in the collections of the Bibliotheque...  Read More >>

This book is an important text of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics, probably composed in the 16th...  Read More >>

This book explores the unique relationship between two different approaches to understand the nature of knowledge,...  Read More >>

This volume contains essays that examine infinity in early modern philosophy. These domains include mathematics,...  Read More >>

This book celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Scientific Computing (IMECC)...  Read More >>

This is the second and final volume of Dutch physicist Hendrik Antoon Lorentz's scientific correspondence with Dutch...  Read More >>

This is a collection of new investigations and discoveries on the history of a great tradition, the Lvov-Warsaw...  Read More >>

Rowe captures the rich tapestry of mathematical creativity in this collection of essays from the “Years Ago” column...  Read More >>

This book explores the rich and deep interplay between mathematics and physics one century after David Hilbert’s...  Read More >>

This book explains the development of theoretical computer science in its early stages, specifically from 1965 to...  Read More >>

This open access book provides an overview of Felix Klein’s ideas, highlighting developments in university teaching...  Read More >>

This book identifies three of the exceptionally fruitful periods of the millennia-long history of the mathematical...  Read More >>

This work explores in historical depth the relation between philosophical quandaries of self-reference and recent...  Read More >>

This book is the fifth and final volume of Raoul Bott’s Collected Papers. It collects all of Bott’s published articles...  Read More >>

This book looks at classic puzzles from the perspective of their structures and what they tell us about the brain....  Read More >>

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"The popular mathematics author and former ""New Scientist"" columnist Stewart offers this challenging and fun collection...  Read More >>

Der Band enthält 14 Korrespondenzen Eulers mit Gelehrten aus dem Umfeld der Universität Halle, der damals grössten...  Read More >>