Philosophy of mathematics books

Jesuit engagement with natural philosophy during the late 16th and early 17th centuries transformed the status of...  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 >>

Celestial Tapestry reveals many remarkable tales, including: the secret message in a masterpiece from the court...  Read More >>

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Good decisions account for risks. For example, the risk of an accident while driving in the rain makes a reasonable...  Read More >>

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

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It focuses on the 18th century, which has often been considered uninteresting for the history of science, representing...  Read More >>

This monograph uses the concept and category of “event” in the study of mathematics as it emerges from an interaction...  Read More >>

Euclid’s Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces...  Read More >>

Euclid’s Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces...  Read More >>

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*** This is the black and white edition. There is also a color edition. *** In the early 17th century, both Jost...  Read More >>

This book defends a novel neo-Aristotelian account of the nature and structure of material objects. Another aim...  Read More >>

This volume casts a fresh light on many classical philosophical issues and brings Wittgensteinian ideas to bear...  Read More >>

This book proposes an ontology of the natural world that is defined only by two axioms: (1) there are distance relations...  Read More >>

Professor Ian Stewart explores the development and limits of the mathematics that tame uncertainty.  Read More >>

Sixteen of today's greatest unsolved mathematical puzzles in a story-driven, illustrated volume that invites readers...  Read More >>

First published in the Netherlands by De Bezige Bij as Plussen en minnen in 2018.  Read More >>

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms...  Read More >>

This book explores evidence the designers of the Temple of Kukulkan in Chichen Itza, Mexico used a single unit of...  Read More >>

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford...  Read More >>

This is an expository book emphasizing the progress of mathematics and its uses. From my treatment in this book...  Read More >>