(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Apr-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300273731)
A lively, accessible history of mathematics throughout the ages and across the globe A lively, accessible history of mathematics throughout the ages and across the globe Mathematics is fundamental to our daily lives. Science,...Loe edasi...
Un dettagliato apparato di note permette di distinguere i fatti dalla finzione, offrendo ai lettori una guida chiara per orientarsi in questa affascinante ricostruzione della vita di Fibonacci....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...
4 Special Functions Approximation Orthogonal Polynomials on the Real Line Gauss-type Quadrature Ordinary Differential Equations History Miscellanea...Loe edasi...
Sari: Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031847592)
The Renaissance of Astronomy provides a comprehensive, technically grounded account of the works of Regiomontanus, Copernicus, Tycho, Kepler and Galileo. There is nothing comparable to it in scope and detail. It is the fruit of a...Loe edasi...
Sari: Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031839627)
This book provides the hitherto disregarded development of the principle of angular momentum, and aims at reconstructing its inception by analyzing Eulers relevant publications and correspondence, and using his unpublished manuscripts and noteboo...Loe edasi...
This book presents William Clifford’s English translation of Bernhard Riemann’s seminal text, accompanied by detailed mathematical, histo...Loe edasi...
Discover the story of mathematics like never before with The Mathematicians’ Library, an extraordinary collection that chronicles the evolution of mathematical thought and its profound impact on the world. This expertly curated anthology br...Loe edasi...
This volume explores the profound impact of Felix Klein on the evolution of mathematics beyond Germany, particularly in number theory, algebra, geometry, analysis, and the application of mathematics in scientific and technical fields, as well as mat...Loe edasi...
An Oxford mathematician, playwright, and musician reveals how creative people can harness the profound and productive relationship between mathematics and the arts When Shakespeare has the Three Witches cast Macbeth’s lot, he uses...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031938085)
This book contains an edited selection of the papers presented at the Second International Conference on the History of Ancient Mathematics and Astronomy (ICHAMA), organized by Tang Quan and Qu Anjing and held in Xi’an, 2–8 December 2018, commemor...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198904045)
Using a plethora of previously unpublished sources, this book analyses the policymaking and policy implementation in the education of British engineers and technologists between 1944-1994. The notion that Britain was losing its internati...Loe edasi...
Starting with hands, abacus, and slide rule, humans have always reached for tools to simplify math. Pocket-sized calculators ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, took us to the bottom of the ocean, and accompanied us to the mo...Loe edasi...
An invaluable companion for anyone who wants a deep understanding of whats under the hood of often inscrutable machines Melanie Mitchell A rich, narrative explanation of the mathematics that has brought us machine learning and the ongoi...Loe edasi...
This book is not only about the history of mathematics, but also by telling the story of some of the most distinctive personalities in the history of mathematics, it goes on to reveal the various strange treasures, bright flowers and hidden passio...Loe edasi...
Delving into previously undisclosed archival sources, this monograph offers a meticulously researched portrayal of Italian Jewish mathematicians amidst the turmoil sparked by the 1938 Italian Racial Laws. Forced migration due to fascist anti-Semit...Loe edasi...
Clemency Montelle, Kim Plofker, Glen Van Brummelen
Sari: Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Aug-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031890864)
Calculating the sine of one degree, not possible with the tools of geometry alone, was a problem approached frequently in various ways in Hellenistic, Arabic, Persian, and European trigonometry. This book situa...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Jul-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789814689366)
This volume explores how mathematical propositions are discovered, how they are demonstrated in various mathematical cultures — ancient Greece, classical Islam, medieval and modern Europe, India, China, and pre-modern Japan — and how they are shaped...Loe edasi...
(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...
The book focuses on the diverse manifestations of mathematical thought at the end of the Middle Ages and right before modernity, revealing how mathematics was understood as both a tool for inquiry and a subject of philosophical reflection in its own...Loe edasi...
Shortlisted for the 2024 British Academy Book PrizeA new history of mathematics focusing on the marginalized voices who propelled the discipline, spanning six continents and thousands of years of untold stories....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Jul-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009546515)
The Pattern of Change explores the concept that pattern is the manifestation of change, integrating ancient Chinese thought with Western perspectives. Accompanied online by additional chapters and endnotes, this is a fascinating and wide-ranging to...Loe edasi...
The Pattern of Change explores the concept that pattern is the manifestation of change, integrating ancient Chinese thought with Western perspectives. Accompanied online by additional chapters and endnotes, this is a fascinating and wide-ranging to...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Jul-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031926617)
By analyzing Guamán Pomas work and considering the nature of the materials used by the Inca for recording and calculating with numbers, this new work finds a mathematical message, a multiplication algorithm, in the historical drawing....Loe edasi...
An interdisciplinary history of trigonometry from the mid-sixteenth century to the early twentiethThe Doctrine of Triangles offers an interdisciplinary history of trigonometry that spans four centuries, starting in 1550 and c...Loe edasi...
