History of mathematics books

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This book presents a broad selection of articles mainly published during the last two decades on a variety of topics...  Read More >>

This book considers the manifold possible approaches, past and present, to our understanding of the natural numbers....  Read More >>

A lively and engaging look at logic puzzles and their role in recreation, mathematics, and philosophy.  Read More >>

A lively and engaging look at logic puzzles and their role in recreation, mathematics, and philosophy.  Read More >>

A lively and engaging look at logic puzzles and their role in recreation, mathematics, and philosophy.  Read More >>

This book examines the role of medieval authors in writing the history of ancient science. (3) the imposition of...  Read More >>

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

This book focuses on the ancient Near East, early imperial China, South-East Asia, and medieval Europe, shedding...  Read More >>

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Dieses Buch nimmt Sie mit auf eine spannende Reise durch die Welt der Wissenschaft: von den Fallgesetzen des Galilei...  Read More >>

This volume offers an integrated understanding of how the theory of general relativity gained momentum after Einstein...  Read More >>

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In the first piece in this book (in French), published in 1855, Luigi Menabrea (1809-96), mathematician, soldier...  Read More >>

This book studies the Dutch mathematician Simon Stevin (1548-1620) as a new type of ‘man of knowledge’. Stevin exemplifies...  Read More >>

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 >>

The work of this young mathematician, whose life was tragically cut short by the war, remains even now, and indeed...  Read More >>

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

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

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