History of mathematics books

4190 books were found.

Proofs of the Cantor-Bernstein Theorem: A Mathematical Excursion

Proofs of the Cantor-Bernstein Theorem: A Mathematical...

Author: Arie Hinkis
ISBN: 9783034802239
Format: Hardback
$290.37

This book offers an excursion through the developmental area of research mathematics.  Read More >>

Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe

Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe...

Author: George Dyson
ISBN: 9780141015903
Format: Paperback
$32.99

In 1945 a small group of brilliant engineers and mathematicians gathered at the Institute for Advanced Study in...  Read More >>

Collected Papers

Collected Papers

Author: Emil Artin ,  Serge Lang
ISBN: 9781461457985
Format: Paperback
$184.77

Reprint. Originally published: Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1965.  Read More >>

The King of Infinite Space: Euclid and His Elements

The King of Infinite Space: Euclid and His Elements...

Author: David Berlinski ,  Arthur Morey
ISBN: 9798200066117
Format: Audio
$31.65

The King of Infinite Space presents a rich, accessible treatment of Euclid and his beautifully simple geometric...  Read More >>

The King of Infinite Space: Euclid and His Elements

The King of Infinite Space: Euclid and His Elements...

Author: David Berlinski ,  Arthur Morey
ISBN: 9798200066100
Format: Audio
$31.65

The King of Infinite Space presents a rich, accessible treatment of Euclid and his beautifully simple geometric...  Read More >>

Trigonometric Delights

Trigonometric Delights

Author: Eli Maor
ISBN: 9780691158204
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Trigonometry has always been an underappreciated branch of mathematics. It has a reputation as a dry and difficult...  Read More >>

A History of Mathematics: From Mesopotamia to Modernity

A History of Mathematics: From Mesopotamia to Modernity...

Author: Luke Hodgkin (King's College, London)
ISBN: 9780199676767
Format: Paperback
$128.95

Covering the evolution of mathematics through time and across the major Eastern and Western civilizations right...  Read More >>

Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton

Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Discoveries of Sir...

Author: Sir David Brewster (Australian National University)
ISBN: 9783863473471
Format: Paperback
$263.74

Sir David Brewster (1781-1868) was a Scottish physicist of international reputation. These memoirs of Sir Isaac...  Read More >>

A Description of the Admirable Table of Logarithmes

A Description of the Admirable Table of Logarithmes...

Author: John Napier
ISBN: 9781482618310
Format: Paperback
$68.61

John Napier published his treatise on the discovery of logarithms in 1614. It was written in Latin, the scholarly...  Read More >>

Plato's Problem: An Introduction to Mathematical Platonism

Plato's Problem: An Introduction to Mathematical Platonism...

Author: M. Panza ,  A. Sereni
ISBN: 9780230365490
Format: Paperback
$158.37

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Plato's Problem: An Introduction to Mathematical Platonism

Plato's Problem: An Introduction to Mathematical Platonism...

Author: M. Panza ,  A. Sereni
ISBN: 9780230365483
Format: Hardback
$145.17

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Convolutions in French Mathematics, 1800–1840: From the Calculus and Mechanics to Mathematical Analysis and Mathematical Physics

Convolutions in French Mathematics, 1800–1840: From...

Author: I. Grattan-Guinness
ISBN: 9783034899185
Format: Paperback
$448.77

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James Joseph Sylvester: Life and Work in Letters

James Joseph Sylvester: Life and Work in Letters

Author: Karen Hunger Parshall (Department of Mathematics, University of Virginia, USA)
ISBN: 9780199671380
Format: Paperback
$162.95

James Joseph Sylvester (1814-1897) was one of the great mathematicians of the 19th century. For the first time 140...  Read More >>

Vito Volterra

Vito Volterra

Author: Angelo Guerraggio ,  Giovanni Paoloni
ISBN: 9783642272622
Format: Hardback
$87.09

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The Game of Probability: Literature and Calculation from Pascal to Kleist

The Game of Probability: Literature and Calculation...

Author: Rüdiger Campe ,  Ellwood Wiggins
ISBN: 9780804768658
Format: Paperback
$118.80

This book demonstrates how, in the Europe of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, literary writers, philosophers,...  Read More >>

The Game of Probability: Literature and Calculation from Pascal to Kleist

The Game of Probability: Literature and Calculation...

Author: Rüdiger Campe ,  Ellwood Wiggins
ISBN: 9780804768641
Format: Hardback
$475.20

This book demonstrates how, in the Europe of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, literary writers, philosophers,...  Read More >>

The History of Mathematics: A Brief Course

The History of Mathematics: A Brief Course

Author: Roger L. Cooke (University of Vermont)
ISBN: 9781118217566
Format: Hardback
$266.95

Praise for the Second Edition ""An amazing assemblage of worldwide contributions in mathematics and, in addition...  Read More >>

A Treatise on the Mathematical Theory of Elasticity

A Treatise on the Mathematical Theory of Elasticity...

Author: A. E. H. Love
ISBN: 9781107618091
Format: Paperback
$139.73

Originally published in 1927, this is a classic account of the mathematical theory of elasticity by English mathematician...  Read More >>

A Panorama of Hungarian Mathematics in the Twentieth Century, I

A Panorama of Hungarian Mathematics in the Twentieth...

Author: Janos Horvath
ISBN: 9783642066986
Format: Paperback
$551.76

A glorious period of Hungarian mathematics started in 1900 when Lipót Fejér discovered the summability of Fourier...  Read More >>

Change and Continuity in Early Modern Cosmology

Change and Continuity in Early Modern Cosmology

Author: Patrick Bonner
ISBN: 9789400734371
Format: Paperback
$290.37

Viewed as a flashpoint of the Scientific Revolution, early modern astronomy witnessed a virtual explosion of ideas...  Read More >>

The Palgrave Centenary Companion to Principia Mathematica

The Palgrave Centenary Companion to Principia Mathematica...

Author: N. Griffin ,  Bernard Linsky
ISBN: 9781349466115
Format: Paperback
$145.17

To mark the centenary of the 1910 to 1913 publication of the monumental Principia Mathematica by Alfred N. Whitehead...  Read More >>

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