(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789819825523)
Revolutions in Mathematics charts the origins and development of key mathematical concepts that have laid the foundation for the advanced technological world we enjoy today. This is a journey through thousands of years of human discovery, effort, an...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789819825981)
Revolutions in Mathematics charts the origins and development of key mathematical concepts that have laid the foundation for the advanced technological world we enjoy today. This is a journey through thousands of years of human discovery, effort, an...Loe edasi...
In studying mathematics, one can encounter surprises, whether in results that seem astonishing or in proofs that lead down unexpected paths. Over his career, the author came across many such gems. This book includes his favorites and invites rea...Loe edasi...
This book presents new editions and investigations of 114 Babylonian planetary tables: cuneiform tablets inscribed with computed dates, positions, and other data for the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. The tablets originate from B...Loe edasi...
Walter Gautschi has written extensively on topics ranging from special functions, quadrature and orthogonal polynomials to difference and differential equations, software implementations, and the history of mathematics. He is world renowned for hi...Loe edasi...
Natura incognita explores the theme of the unknown nature, offering an interdisciplinary perspective that bridges the history of science with other fields of enquiry, such as the history of philosophy, museology, environmental and animal studies. Fa...Loe edasi...
This book explores the birth of modern modal logic, which offers a precise formalism for encoding the concepts of possibility and necessity within the fundamental logical formalism and for using them in conjunction with the preexisting set of logica...Loe edasi...
The Siddhntairomai was composed in 1150 CE by the celebrated mathematicianastronomer Bhskarcrya. In the Grahagaitdhyya part of it, most of the standard calculations and algorithms in Indian astronomy of his times are included. All these are explaine...Loe edasi...
This book presents high-quality papers on the History of Mathematical Sciences, focusing on Portugal and East Asia, a testament to ongoing international collaboration in uncovering the rich, interwoven histories of science, culture, and diplomacy ac...Loe edasi...
A lively, accessible history of mathematics throughout the ages and across the globe Mathematics is fundamental to our daily lives. Science, computing, economicsall aspects of modern life rely on some kind of maths. But how did our ancestors think...Loe edasi...
An investigation into the predecessors of the magic cube. Magic cubes are generally considered to have been invented in the second half of the nineteenth century, when the conditions for a cube to be called magic were established: it m...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674279339)
In medieval and early modern Europe, the transition from Roman to Indo-Arabic numerals enabled their users to make key commercial and mathematical advances. Raffaele Danna shows how hundreds of ordinary merchants, schoolteachers, and artisans facili...Loe edasi...
How humanity’s long pursuit of ever-larger numbers broke the boundaries of mathematics and propelled us into the Information Age What if, every time you wanted to write down 1,000,000, you had to draw a picture of a god? And what if...Loe edasi...
Shakespeare’s era was abuzz with mathematical progress, from the new concept of “zero” to Galileo’s redraft of the heavens. Now, Rob Eastaway uncovers the many surprising ways math shaped Shakespeare’s plays—and his world—touring astronomy, code-brea...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Apr-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K, ISBN-13: 9783662729175)
This book presents methods from the history of mathematics that have not become standard methods or even made it into classic textbooks. These alternative approaches were often popular at the time of their creation, but then lost attention compared...Loe edasi...
This introductory overview of number theory covers all the essential topics and techniques. The first chapters, accessible to undergraduates, assume only basic abstract algebra, while later parts require graduate-level algebra and complex analysis....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Apr-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K, ISBN-13: 9783662724026)
This book invites you to marvel: discover how, for example, Archimedes was able to determine the area of a parabolic segment 1,800 years before the invention of “classical” integral calculus, derive a summation formula for square numbers with Ibn...Loe edasi...
Big Thinks Best Science Book of 2024 A theoretical physicist takes readers on an awe-inspiring journey to discover how the universe generates everything from nothing at all: If you want to know whats really going on in the realms...Loe edasi...
