History of mathematics books

4185 books were found.

The Gnostic Notebook: Volume Three: On Plato, the Fourth Dimension, and the Lost Philosophy

The Gnostic Notebook: Volume Three: On Plato, the Fourth...

Author: Timothy James Lambert
ISBN: 9781533521798
Format: Paperback
$31.65

The last time we saw the author, he had just broken off his presentation of the seven key parables of Jesus, with...  Read More >>

Mathematics Education Across Time and Place: Over Two Millennia from Athens to Zimbabwe

Mathematics Education Across Time and Place: Over Two...

Author: Thomas O'Shea (U S Geological Survey Fort Collins Colorado USA)
ISBN: 9781460286098
Format: Paperback
$77.85

What is mathematics, and what aspects of it should be taught in schools? How and to whom should it be taught, and...  Read More >>

Mathematics Education Across Time and Place: Over Two Millennia from Athens to Zimbabwe

Mathematics Education Across Time and Place: Over Two...

Author: Thomas O'Shea (U S Geological Survey Fort Collins Colorado USA)
ISBN: 9781460286081
Format: Hardback
$126.69

What is mathematics, and what aspects of it should be taught in schools? How and to whom should it be taught, and...  Read More >>

A History of Elementary Mathematics

A History of Elementary Mathematics

Author: Florian Cajori
ISBN: 9781357496425
Format: Hardback
$79.07

Traces development of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and trigonometry in ancient world; influence of Hindu and Arabic...  Read More >>

Formal Logic: Or, the Calculus of Inference, Necessary and Probable

Formal Logic: Or, the Calculus of Inference, Necessary...

Author: Augustus de Morgan
ISBN: 9781357393175
Format: Hardback
$73.79

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure

Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure

Author: Cédric Villani ,  Malcolm Debevoise
ISBN: 9780374536671
Format: Paperback
$68.64

""An intimate look inside a mathematician's mind as he wrestles with the theorem that will make his reputation""--...  Read More >>

History of Modern Mathematics

History of Modern Mathematics

Author: David Eugene Smith
ISBN: 9781356961641
Format: Hardback
$57.95

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

Robert Recorde: Tudor Scholar and Mathematician

Robert Recorde: Tudor Scholar and Mathematician

Author: Gordon Roberts
ISBN: 9781783168545
Format: Paperback
$33.61

The enthralling biography of Robert Recorde, Tudor physician, mathematician, and learned savant.  Read More >>

Robert Recorde: Tudor Scholar and Mathematician

Robert Recorde: Tudor Scholar and Mathematician

Author: Gordon Roberts
ISBN: 9781783168293
Format: Hardback
$90.56

The enthralling biography of Robert Recorde, Tudor physician, mathematician, and learned savant.  Read More >>

Mathematical and Physical Papers Volume 6

Mathematical and Physical Papers Volume 6

Author: Joseph Larmor ,  William Thomson Kelvin
ISBN: 9781356080298
Format: Hardback
$73.79

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

Freedom in Mathematics

Freedom in Mathematics

Author: Pierre Cartier ,  Jean Dhombres
ISBN: 9788132227861
Format: Hardback
$211.17

Jean Dhombres, mathematician and science historian, and Gerhard Heinzmann, philosopher of science and also a specialist...  Read More >>

History of Modern Mathematics

History of Modern Mathematics

Author: David Eugene Smith
ISBN: 9781355075066
Format: Hardback
$57.95

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

Mathematical and Physical Papers, Volume 3

Mathematical and Physical Papers, Volume 3

Author: Joseph Larmor ,  Baron William Thomson Kelvin
ISBN: 9781354815663
Format: Hardback
$79.07

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

Mathematical Tables: Containing the Common, Hyperbolic, and Logistic Logarithms

Mathematical Tables: Containing the Common, Hyperbolic,...

Author: Charles Hutton
ISBN: 9781354555873
Format: Hardback
$76.43

The 1858 seventh edition of a standard work which made certain calculations possible before the advent of computers....  Read More >>

Mathematical and Physical Papers, Volume 6

Mathematical and Physical Papers, Volume 6

Author: Joseph Larmor ,  Baron William Thomson Kelvin
ISBN: 9781354566701
Format: Hardback
$73.79

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

On the Hypotheses Which Lie at the Bases of Geometry

On the Hypotheses Which Lie at the Bases of Geometry...

Author: Jürgen Jost ,  Bernhard Riemann
ISBN: 9783319260402
Format: Hardback
$475.17

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Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences: Volume One

Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy...

Author: Ivor Grattan-Guiness
ISBN: 9781138688117
Format: Paperback
$118.00

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Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences: Volume Two

Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy...

Author: Ivor Grattan-Guiness
ISBN: 9781138688162
Format: Paperback
$118.00

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Raum und Wissen: Elemente einer Theorie epistemischen Diagrammgebrauchs

Raum und Wissen: Elemente einer Theorie epistemischen...

Author: Jan Wöpking
ISBN: 9783110441666
Format: Hardback
$205.83

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The Dark Station; As the Sun Shines

The Dark Station; As the Sun Shines

Author: Cecil Barber
ISBN: 9781354277072
Format: Hardback
$57.95

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

Classic Topics on the History of Modern Mathematical Statistics: From Laplace to More Recent Times

Classic Topics on the History of Modern Mathematical...

Author: Prakash Gorroochurn
ISBN: 9781119127925
Format: Hardback
$240.95

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Instruments and the Imagination

Instruments and the Imagination

Author: Thomas L. Hankins ,  Robert J. Silverman
ISBN: 9780691635200
Format: Hardback
$280.00

Thomas Hankins and Robert Silverman investigate an array of instruments from the seventeenth through the nineteenth...  Read More >>

Force and Geometry in Newton's Principia

Force and Geometry in Newton's Principia

Author: François De Gandt ,  Curtis Wilson
ISBN: 9780691631981
Format: Hardback
$245.00

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Archimedes

Archimedes

Author: Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis
ISBN: 9780691636290
Format: Hardback
$360.00

This classic study by the eminent Dutch historian of science E. J. Dijksterhuis (1892-1965) presents the work of...  Read More >>

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