History of mathematics books

This book explores the origins of mathematical analysis in an accessible, clear, and precise manner. A Brief History...  Read More >>

In this delightful layperson's introduction to one of math's most interesting phenomena, Drs. Posamentier and Lehmann...  Read More >>

This book treats eighteenth-century Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico’s theory of poetic logic for the first...  Read More >>

The British mathematician John Edensor Littlewood remarked that one finds in the ancient mathematicians not ‘clever...  Read More >>

Mathematics holds a central place in the traditional liberal arts. The four mathematical disciplines of the quadrivium...  Read More >>

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This volume offers English translations of three early works by Ernst Schröder (1841-1902), a mathematician and...  Read More >>

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This volume, originally published in China and translated into four other languages, presents a fascinating and...  Read More >>

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Kurt Gödel (1906-1978) gained world-wide fame by his incompleteness theorem of 1931. Later, he set as his aim to...  Read More >>

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How playwrights from Alfred Jarry and Samuel Beckett to Tom Stoppard and Simon McBurney brought the power of abstract...  Read More >>

John Horton Conway, the playful and legendary mathematician's wide range of contributions in science which includes...  Read More >>

Unlike most other histories of mathematics now available, the emphasis is on the gradual emergence of ""mathematics...  Read More >>

A intersecção entre filosofia e física é um campo fascinante que busca explorar questões fundamentais sobre a natureza...  Read More >>

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Introdu��o ao Ensino de F�sica, escrito por Thiago Itamar Morais, � uma obra essencial para professores, estudantes...  Read More >>

This book depicts the fascinating life story of Wu Wenjun, a renowned mathematician who made significant contribution...  Read More >>

This volume presents multiple perspectives on the uses of the history of mathematics for teaching and learning,...  Read More >>

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The ancient Greeks discovered them, but it wasn't until the nineteenth century that irrational numbers were properly...  Read More >>

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice ""Wilkinson has accomplished something more moving and original, braiding...  Read More >>

Ibn al-Haytham (c.965–c.1040) is perhaps the greatest mathematician and physicist of the medieval Arabic/Islamic...  Read More >>

"The British philosopher, mathematician, historian, author, social critic, political activist, and Nobel winner...  Read More >>