Developed from a course on the history of mathematics, the book is aimed at school teachers of mathematics who need to learn more about mathematics than its history, and in a way they can communicate to middle and high school students. The author ho...Loe edasi...
This volume provides a unique primary source on the history and philosophy of mathematics and science from the mediaeval Arab world. It also includes extensive commentary from one of worlds foremost authorities....Loe edasi...
The book is a collection of research surveys in discrete mathematics written by leading experts.The sections of the book include: Extremal graphtheory and random graphs; Graph coloring and structural graph theory; Algorithms; Designs, Geometry, Pack...Loe edasi...
Greenwich has been a centre for scientific computing since the foundation of the Royal Observatory in 1675. This book presents an account of the mathematicians who worked at Greenwich and their achievements....Loe edasi...
This title may be thought of as a book for nonmathematicians taking an undergraduate mathematics course. Thus, it will have minimal mathematical prerequisites and very few equations. It will be driven by examples that will lead students down new pat...Loe edasi...
There is nothing like it on the market. no others are as encyclopedic. the writing is exemplary: simple, direct, and competent. George W....Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1977, discusses the Muslim contribution to mathematics during the golden age of Muslim learning from the seventh to the thirteenth century. It was during this period that Muslim culture exerted powerful economic, politi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Sep-2014, Kirjastus: de Gruyter Oldenbourg, ISBN-13: 9783110359831)
Infinite series are the unifying thread that runs through the history of mathematical analysis. Ever since the 17th century, they have also been inseparably linked to infinitesimal calculus, and form its backbone. This book includes the historical r...Loe edasi...
This volume provides a unique primary source on the history and philosophy of mathematics and science from the mediaeval Arab world. It also includes extensive commentary from one of worlds foremost authorities on the subject....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Sep-2013, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199681976)
Revealing the richness and influence of Oxfords mathematical tradition and the fascinating characters that have helped to shape it for over 800 years, this second edition brings the story right up to the opening of the new Oxford Mathematical Insti...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Jun-2013, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199656592)
Combinatorics is the branch of discrete mathematics that studies (and counts) permutations, combinations, and arrangements of sets of elements. This book constitutes the first book-length survey of the history of combinatorics and uniquely assembles...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Nov-2012, Kirjastus: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789814390446)
Analyzes the interaction between Europe and East Asia in the 17th and 18th centuries in the field of mathematical sciences, bringing to the fore the role of Portugal as an agent of transformation in this process. This title brings together an analys...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Jun-2012, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199289318)
In ancient tradition, Pythagoras emerges as a wise teacher, an outstanding mathematician, an influential politician, and as a religious and ethical reformer. This volume offers a comprehensive study of Pythagoras, Pythagoreanism, and the early Pytha...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Mar-2012, Kirjastus: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789814390804)
Offers a detailed study of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnizs creation of calculus from 1673 to the 1680s. In this book, the authors examine and analyze the mathematics in several of his early manuscripts as well as various articles published in the Acta...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Dec-2011, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199601400)
Jami explores how the emperor Kangxi solidified the Qing dynasty in seventeenth-century China through the appropriation of the Western learning, and especially the mathematics, of Jesuit missionaries. This book details not only the history of math...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Apr-2011, Kirjastus: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789812835512)
Arthur Lyon Bowley, the founding father of modern statistics, was an important and colorful figure and a leader in cementing the foundations of statistical methodology and of the applications of statistics to economical and social issues during the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Apr-2011, Kirjastus: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789814322713)
An anthology that intends to equip background researchers, practitioners and students of international mathematics education with intimate knowledge of mathematics education in Russia. It examines the history of mathematics education in Russia and i...Loe edasi...
Brings together articles on the different numeral forms used in the Middle Ages, and their use in mathematical and other contexts. This title discusses how different types of numerals are used for different purposes, and the application of numerals...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Nov-2010, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199546534)
Paolo Mancosu presents an innovative set of studies of logic and the foundations of mathematics in the first half of the twentieth century. He sheds new light on important topics such as the relationship between phenomenology and the exact sciences,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2010, Kirjastus: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789814317597)
Features interviews of 38 eminent mathematicians and mathematical scientists who were invited to participate in the programs of the Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore. This book is suitable for those who are intere...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Nov-2009, Kirjastus: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789812836267)
The 1947 paper by John von Neumann and Herman Goldstine, Numerical Inverting of Matrices of High Order is considered as the birth certificate of numerical analysis. This book presents a collection of contributions by researchers who have lived thr...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Sep-2009, Kirjastus: A K Peters, ISBN-13: 9780429063084)
In the 17th century, the city of Basel was the home of one of the most prominent mathematical families of all time, the Bernoullis, and their friend, protege and master Leonhard Euler. This work chronicles their lives and achievements. It can serve...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Aug-2009, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter & Co, ISBN-13: 9783110220797)
Thabit ibn Qurra (826901) was one of historys most original thinkers and displayed expertise in the most difficult disciplines of this time: geometry, number theory, and astronomy as well as ontology, physics, and metaphysics....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Feb-2009, Kirjastus: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789812835253)
This book analysis postmodern interpretations of science (PIS) and the closely related sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK). It examines the thoughts of Karl Popper, Karl Mannheim, Ludwik Fleck, Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend, David Bloor, Stev...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Jan-2009, Kirjastus: A K Peters, ISBN-13: 9780429064975)
Traces the history of the MIT Department of Mathematics through conversations with a group of its senior members. This book reveals much about the motivation, path, and impact of research mathematicians in a society that owes so much to this little...Loe edasi...
