History of mathematics books

4197 books were found.

Al-Kashi's Miftah al-Hisab, Volume III: Algebra: Translation and Commentary

Al-Kashi's Miftah al-Hisab, Volume III: Algebra: Translation...

Author: Nuh Aydin ,  Lakhdar Hammoudi
ISBN: 9783030966140
Format: Hardback
$284.60

By sharing al-Kāshī’s most comprehensive work with a wider audience, this book will help establish a more complete...  Read More >>

The Making of Mathematics: Heuristic Philosophy of Mathematics

The Making of Mathematics: Heuristic Philosophy of Mathematics...

Author: Carlo Cellucci
ISBN: 9783030897307
Format: Hardback
$284.60

In the past century, mainstream philosophy of mathematics has claimed that the philosophy of mathematics cannot...  Read More >>

Die Grundlegung der Analysis durch Karl Weierstraß: Eine bislang unbekannte Konstruktion der natürlichen und der reellen Zahlen

Die Grundlegung der Analysis durch Karl Weierstraß:...

Author: Detlef D. Spalt
ISBN: 9783658365479
Format: Hardback
$206.97

Es gibt einen elementaren mathematischen Begriff, der seit 1880 kein zweites Mal erfunden wurde. Der Fund einer...  Read More >>

The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920–1950

The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920–1950

Author: Karen Hunger Parshall
ISBN: 9780691235240
Format: Paperback
$89.99

A meticulously researched history on the development of American mathematics in the three decades following World...  Read More >>

The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920–1950

The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920–1950

Author: Karen Hunger Parshall
ISBN: 9780691197555
Format: Hardback
$270.00

A meticulously researched history on the development of American mathematics in the three decades following World...  Read More >>

A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of...

Author: Paul Lockhart ,  Matthew Josdal
ISBN: 9798212062732
Format: Audio
$110.85

A manifesto for freeing math from the drudgery of traditional teaching by a brilliant mathematician.  Read More >>

A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of...

Author: Paul Lockhart ,  Matthew Josdal
ISBN: 9798212062725
Format: Audio
$73.89

A manifesto for freeing math from the drudgery of traditional teaching by a brilliant mathematician.  Read More >>

Kohärenz und Wahrscheinlichkeit: Eine Untersuchung probabilistischer Kohärenzmaße

Kohärenz und Wahrscheinlichkeit: Eine Untersuchung probabilistischer...

Author: Jakob Koscholke ,  Michael Schippers
ISBN: 9783110612004
Format: Paperback
$42.81

Das Buch gibt einen �berblick �ber die neuere Forschung im Bereich probabilistischer Koh�renzma�e, die den Begriff...  Read More >>

The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann

The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John...

Author: Ananyo Bhattacharya
ISBN: 9781324003991
Format: Hardback
$79.20

An electrifying biography of one of the most extraordinary scientists of the twentieth century and the world he...  Read More >>

Writings for the Companion to the British Almanac 1831 - 1857

Writings for the Companion to the British Almanac 1831...

Author: Augustus de Morgan ,  Gary Menchen
ISBN: 9798985556605
Format: Paperback
$59.49

This volume collects, for the first time, in photographic reproduction, all of De Morgan's essays for the Companion...  Read More >>

Emmy Noether – Mathematician Extraordinaire

Emmy Noether – Mathematician Extraordinaire

Author: David E. Rowe
ISBN: 9783030638122
Format: Paperback
$284.60

"Although she was famous as the ""mother of modern algebra,"" Emmy Noether’s life and work have never been the subject...  Read More >>

Leibniz Et La Methode de la Science

Leibniz Et La Methode de la Science

Author: Francois Duchesneau
ISBN: 9782711630127
Format: Paperback
$118.80

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Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Society in Nineteenth Century Britain

Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Society in Nineteenth...

Author: Lawrence Goldman (Emeritus Fellow, Emeritus Fellow, St. Peter's College, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780192847744
Format: Hardback
$104.77

A defining feature of Victorian Britain was its fascination with statistics, and this study shows how data influenced...  Read More >>

Research Schools on Number Theory in India: During the 20th Century

Research Schools on Number Theory in India: During the...

Author: Purabi Mukherji
ISBN: 9789811596223
Format: Paperback
$77.60

This book is an attempt to describe the gradual development of the major schools of research on number theory in...  Read More >>

The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and Mathematics

The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and Mathematics...

Author: Robert Tubbs ,  Alice Jenkins
ISBN: 9783030554804
Format: Paperback
$413.97

This handbook features essays written by both literary scholars and mathematicians that examine multiple facets...  Read More >>

Oxford's Savilian Professors of Geometry: The First 400 Years

Oxford's Savilian Professors of Geometry: The First...

Author: Robin Wilson (Emeritus Professor of Pure Mathematics, Emeritus Professor of Pure Mathematics, Open University and Emeritus Professor of Geometry, Gresham College, London)
ISBN: 9780198869030
Format: Hardback
$183.71

To celebrate the 400th anniversary of the founding of the geometry chair, a meeting was held at the Bodleian Library...  Read More >>

The Art of More: How Mathematics Created Civilization

The Art of More: How Mathematics Created Civilization...

Author: Michael Brooks
ISBN: 9781524748999
Format: Hardback
$73.92

"""Originally published in paperback in Australia by Scribe Publications, Melbourne, and in hardcover in Great Britain...  Read More >>

Kurt Gödel: The Princeton Lectures on Intuitionism

Kurt Gödel: The Princeton Lectures on Intuitionism

Author: Maria Hämeen-Anttila ,  Jan von Plato
ISBN: 9783030872953
Format: Hardback
$113.82

Gödel then went on to attack Hilbert's first and second Paris problems, namely Cantor's continuum problem about...  Read More >>

Understand Mathematics, Understand Computing: Discrete Mathematics That All Computing Students Should Know

Understand Mathematics, Understand Computing: Discrete...

Author: Arnold L. Rosenberg ,  Denis Trystram
ISBN: 9783030583781
Format: Paperback
$142.29

In this book the authors aim to endow the reader with an operational, conceptual, and methodological understanding...  Read More >>

Symbols and Things: Mathematics in the Age of Steam

Symbols and Things: Mathematics in the Age of Steam...

Author: Kevin Lambert
ISBN: 9780822946830
Format: Hardback
$145.20

An exploration of things and equipment used by eighteenth- and ninteenth-century mathematicians.  Read More >>

The Discrete Charm of the Machine: Why the World Became Digital

The Discrete Charm of the Machine: Why the World Became...

Author: Ken Steiglitz
ISBN: 9780691229027
Format: Paperback
$32.99

A few short decades ago, we were informed by the smooth signals of analog television and radio -we communicated...  Read More >>

Epsilons and Deltas of Life: Everyday Stories, Volume II

Epsilons and Deltas of Life: Everyday Stories, Volume...

Author: Satish C Bhatnagar
ISBN: 9781956998061
Format: Paperback
$23.26

Dear Professor Satish, Your inspiring reflections have become part of my daily breakfast. Thank you an awful lot....  Read More >>

Mathematician with the Soul of a Poet: Poems and Plays of Sofia Kovalevskaya

Mathematician with the Soul of a Poet: Poems and Plays...

Author: Sofia Kovalevskaya ,  Sandra DeLozier Coleman
ISBN: 9798985029802
Format: Paperback
$41.40

Sofia Kovalevskaya was the first woman to earn a PhD in math and the Prix Bordin, but her poems and plays reveal...  Read More >>

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