History of mathematics books

This book examines the life and work of mathematician Giovanni Battista Guccia, founder of the Circolo Matematico...  Read More >>

Wie kommt es, dass das Buch der Natur in der Sprache der Mathematik geschrieben ist? Was hat Mathematik mit...  Read More >>

In 1503, for the first time, a student in Paris was able to spend his entire university career studying only the...  Read More >>

What is our symbolic intuition of reality, and how is it possible? In Toward a New Conception of Mathematics, Davide...  Read More >>

This book describes in detail the various theories on the shape of the Earth from classical antiquity to the present...  Read More >>

This book offers a historical explanation of important philosophical problems in logic and mathematics, which have...  Read More >>

For the first time, all five of John Napier’s works have been brought together in English in a single volume, making...  Read More >>

This volume contains the texts and translations of two Arabic treatises on magic squares, which are undoubtedly...  Read More >>

This book tells one of the greatest stories in the history of school mathematics. Two of the names in the title—Samuel...  Read More >>

This monograph presents in great detail a large number of both unpublished and previously published Babylonian mathematical...  Read More >>

This book commemorates the 150th birthday of Corrado Segre, one of the founders of the Italian School of Algebraic...  Read More >>

Gerhard Gentzen is best known for his development of the proof systems of natural deduction and sequent calculus,...  Read More >>

The book will be of particular interest to scholars engaged in the study of Islamic theoretical astronomy, but is...  Read More >>

This engaging book places Leonardo da Vinci’s scientific achievements within the wider context of the rapid development...  Read More >>

This book collects more than thirty contributions in memory of Wolfgang Schwarz, most of which were presented at...  Read More >>

Although the new SAT math section is difficult, it is very learnable. SAT Math Prep Course presents a thorough analysis...  Read More >>

This book presents, for the first time, the unpublished manuscripts of Lars Hörmander, written between 1951 and...  Read More >>

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

This biography traces the life and work of Mary Fairfax Somerville, whose extraordinary mathematical talent only...  Read More >>

Between the genesis of computer science in the 1960s and the advent of the World Wide Web around 1990, computer...  Read More >>

A dazzling group biography of the early twentieth-century thinkers who transformed the way the world thought about...  Read More >>

A dazzling group biography of the early twentieth-century thinkers who transformed the way the world thought about...  Read More >>

I can recommend it unconditionally… Elena Prestini… has taken one major mathematical idea, that of Fourier analysis,...  Read More >>

This book addresses the historiography of mathematics as it was practiced during the 19th and 20th centuries by...  Read More >>

In this book, you will discover the origins of mathematics in the distant past of the Sumerian and Babylonian civilizations....  Read More >>