(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Jul-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: William Collins, ISBN-13: 9780008436506)
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COUNT? WHY ARE HUMANS THE ONLY SPECIES ON EARTH THAT CAN DO IT? WHERE DID COUNTING COME FROM? HOW HAS IT SHAPED SOCIETIES ALONG THE WAY? AND WHY DOES IT MATTER?...Loe edasi...
This is the second volume in a two-part set on the writings of Thomas Salmon. Salmon (1647-1706) is remembered today for the fury with which Matthew Locke greeted his first foray into musical writing, the Essay to the Advancement of Musick (1672), an...Loe edasi...
Thomas Salmon (1647-1706) is remembered today for the fury with which Matthew Locke greeted his first foray into musical writing, the Essay to the Advancement of Musick (1672), and the near-farcical level to which the subsequent pamphlet dispute quic...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jul-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: William Collins, ISBN-13: 9780008436469)
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COUNT? WHY ARE HUMANS THE ONLY SPECIES ON EARTH THAT CAN DO IT? WHERE DID COUNTING COME FROM? HOW HAS IT SHAPED SOCIETIES ALONG THE WAY? AND WHY DOES IT MATTER?...Loe edasi...
A sweeping cultural history of one of the most influential mathematical books ever writtenEuclids Elements of Geometry is one of the fountainheads of mathematics—and of culture. Written around 300 BCE, it has traveled...Loe edasi...
Warum ist er heute noch relevant Anhand zahlreicher konkreter Beispiele von Fermat, Newton und Lagrange, um nur einige zu nennen lehrt dieses Buch, historische Texte kritisch zu verstehen und zu analysieren....Loe edasi...
The volume contains eleven case studies exploring the production, collection, and use of early modern mathematical texts across different social milieus. Libraries and archives contain many thousands of early modern mathematical bo...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Aug-2021, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: William Collins, ISBN-13: 9780008299941)
An astonishingly readable and informative history of the greatest mathematical bestseller of all time The writing is vivid and the stories are gripping. Highly recommended IAN STEWART, AUTHOR OF SIGNIFICANT FIGURES...Loe edasi...
A sweeping cultural history of one of the most influential mathematical books ever writtenEuclids Elements of Geometry is one of the fountainheads of mathematics—and of culture. Written around 300 BCE, it has traveled...Loe edasi...
By defining and illuminating the distinctive world of early modern mathematical reading, the volume seeks to close the gap between the history of mathematics as a history of texts and history of mathematics as part of the broader history of human cu...Loe edasi...
John Wallis (1616-1703), was one of the foremost British mathematicians of the seventeenth century, and is also remembered for his important writings on grammar and logic. An interest in music theory led him to produce translations into Latin of thre...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Aug-2020, Hardback, Kirjastus: William Collins, ISBN-13: 9780008299903)
Euclids Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how an ancient Greek text on mathematics often hailed as the worlds first textbook shaped two thousand years of art, philosophy and li...Loe edasi...
John Birchensha (c.1605- 1681) is chiefly remembered for the impression that his theories about music made on the mathematicians, natural philosophers and virtuosi of the Royal Society in the 1660s and 1670s, and for inventing a system that he claim...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Nov-2017, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198805045)
This book is the first edition of the surviving correspondence of celebrated Georgain mathematician and educator Charles Hutton (1737-1823). This book contains all the letters that are known to survive from the correspondence of Charles Hutto...Loe edasi...
John Wallis (1616-1703), was one of the foremost British mathematicians of the seventeenth century, and is also remembered for his important writings on grammar and logic. An interest in music theory led him to produce translations into Latin of thre...Loe edasi...
Rene Descartess Compendium musicAe was one of the most widely-read texts on the mathematics of music in the second half of the seventeenth century, offering a succinct and lucid summary of its subject. It was translated into English, French and Dutc...Loe edasi...
Thomas Salmon (1647-1706) is remembered today for the fury with which Matthew Locke greeted his first foray into musical writing, the Essay to the Advancement of Musick (1672), and the near-farcical level to which the subsequent pamphlet dispute qui...Loe edasi...
Thomas Salmon (1647-1706) is remembered today for the fury with which Matthew Locke greeted his first foray into musical writing, the Essay to the Advancement of Musick (1672), and the near-farcical level to which the subsequent pamphlet dispute quic...Loe edasi...
