A collection of 24 classroom modules (PSPs) produced by TRIUMPHS that incorporate the reading of primary source excerpts to teach core mathematical topics. The selected excerpts are intertwined with thoughtfully designed student tasks that prompt st...Loe edasi...
Offers a detailed description of the early history of the three-body problem and its periodic solutions, with chapters dedicated to the pioneering work of Hill, Poincare, and Darwin. This is followed by an in-depth account of the contribution to the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Dec-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: American Mathematical Society, ISBN-13: 9781470448295)
Offers a comprehensive history of the development of mathematics in the US and Canada. This first volume of a two-volume work takes the reader from the European encounters with North America in the fifteenth century up to the emergence of the United...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Apr-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107124134)
Pure mathematics in Britain at the start of the nineteenth century was mainly a recreation for amateurs. Using primary sources, this engaging account describes how, by the start of World War I, it had become an academic discipline of repute led by G....Loe edasi...
Hassler Whitney was a giant of twentieth-century mathematics. This biography paints a picture of him and includes dozens of revealing anecdotes. Mathematically, he had a rare detector that went off whenever he spotted a piece of mathematical gold, a...Loe edasi...
The contribution that Italian mathematicians Tullio Levi-Civita (1873-1941) and Gregorio Ricci Curbastro (1853-1925) made to Einsteins theory of general relativity deserves to be better known, says Goodstein. She discusses the Riccis of Lugo, th...Loe edasi...
Social reformer, banker, and mathematician, Olinde Rodrigues is a fascinating figure of nineteenth-century Paris. Information about him is obscure--scattered in publications on history, mathematics, and the social sciences--and often inaccurate. Rod...Loe edasi...
This is an innovative modern exposition of geometry, or rather, of geometries; it is the first textbook in which Felix Kleins Erlangen Program (the action of transformation groups) is systematically used as the basis for defining various geometries...Loe edasi...
This book is the first English translation of the classic long paper Theorie der algebraischen Functionen einer Veranderlichen (Theory of Algebraic Functions of One Variable), published by Dedekind and Weber in 1882. The translation has been enriche...Loe edasi...
This volume documents the life and work of Canadian mathematician John Charles Fields (1863-1932), who established the Fields Medal for outstanding mathematics discoveries in 1932. It relates his childhood in Hamilton, Canada West, and its scientific...Loe edasi...
This is the story of a remarkable private tutor, William Hopkins, and the education and careers of his students: the so-called ‘Wranglers’. First-hand accounts of life at Cambridge allow the reader a glimpse inside Cambridge – and Hopkinss tutoring...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Aug-2007, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer London Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781846287909)
The mid-19th century brought dramatic changes to Cambridge University. Before 1850, the only pathway to an honours degree was the Mathematical Tripos - taken by all aspiring students whatever their destined careers - and the best teaching was provide...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Feb-2007, Hardback, Kirjastus: American Mathematical Society, ISBN-13: 9780821839690)
This is a biography of Vito Volterra (1860-1940), the Italian mathematician and physicist who rose from the Jewish ghettos to become the founder and president of Italys National Research Council. While his academic career is naturally a strong focus...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Nov-2005, Hardback, Kirjastus: American Mathematical Society, ISBN-13: 9780821838600)
French mathematician, social reformer, and banker Rodrigues (1794-1850) was always on the margin of mathematics and political events of his time, and so is mentioned only marginally both by contemporaries and by subsequent historians. Undaunted, math...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jan-1998, Hardback, Kirjastus: American Mathematical Society, ISBN-13: 9780821808412)
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This book presents a fascinating story of the long life and great accomplishments of Jacques Hadamard (1865-1963), who was once called the living legend of mathematics. As one of the last universal mathematicians, Hadamards contributions to mathem...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-May-1993, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198539698)
Most people have heard of the Mobius band. But the work and influence of August Mobius are more far-reaching than a topological toy. For some fifty years of the nineteenth century, August Mobius taught astronomy and researched in mathematics at Leipz...Loe edasi...
