Max Dehn (1878-1952) is known to mathematicians today for his seminal contributions to geometry and topology-Dehn surgery, Dehn twists, the Dehn invariant, etc. He is also remembered as the first mathematician to solve one of Hilberts famous proble...Loe edasi...
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...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-May-2016, Hardback, Kirjastus: American Mathematical Society, ISBN-13: 9781470426088)
Translated by Roger Cooke, The Case of Academician Nikolai Nikolaevich Luzin (the case), debuts 15 years after the publication of the Russian original. The case stemmed from the 1936 internal conflicts in the Soviet School between the young and the o...Loe edasi...
This book presents, in his own words, the life of Hugo Steinhaus (1887–1972), noted Polish mathematician of Jewish background, educator, and mathematical popularizer. A student of Hilbert, a pioneer of the foundations of probability and game theory,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Aug-2014, Hardback, Kirjastus: American Mathematical Society, ISBN-13: 9781470410766)
Lvov is a beautiful city in the Western Ukraine, one of the great tourist destinations of the region with a rich and magnificent history, but there is more to it than medieval walls and museums: it also has a history of mathematical thought and innov...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jul-2014, Hardback, Kirjastus: American Mathematical Society, ISBN-13: 9781470414931)
This is a unique study, tracing the development of a branch of mathematics and its divergence due to political reasons. The theory of semigroups is a recent development--the term semigroup was not even coined until 1904, only a few years before the...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...
The emigration of mathematicians from Europe during the Nazi era signaled an irrevocable and important historical shift for the international mathematics world. Mathematicians Fleeing from Nazi Germany is the first thoroughly documented account of th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Jul-2009, Hardback, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691125930)
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The emigration of mathematicians from Europe during the Nazi era signaled an irrevocable and important historical shift for the international mathematics world.Mathematicians Fleeing from Nazi Germany is the first thoroughly documented acco...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: 30-Oct-2006, Hardback, Kirjastus: Facts On File Inc, ISBN-13: 9780816054268)
Profiles ten individuals who have made significant contributions to the field of mathematics in the first half of the twentieth century....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Dec-2001, Hardback, Kirjastus: A K Peters, ISBN-13: 9781568811413)
At the Second International Congress of Mathematicians in 1900, David Hilbert delivered a talk in which he outlined a set of mathematical problems that would define the future of mathematical research in the years to follow. Fellow mathematician Herm...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Dec-2001, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: A K Peters, ISBN-13: 9781568812168)
This eminently readable book focuses on the people of mathematics and draws the reader into their fascinating world. In a monumental address, given to the International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris in 1900, David Hilbert, perhaps the most resp...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...
