Way it Was
Offers a review of mathematics through the early years of ""The Bulletin of the New York...
EAN: 9780821826720
Symbols, Impossible Numbers, and Geometric Entanglements
This is the first history of the development and reception of algebra in early modern England and...
EAN: 9780521027403
God Created the Integers
Helps the reader understand the progression of mathematical thought, and the very foundations of...
EAN: 9780141018782
Coxeter Legacy
Coxeter groups arise in various subjects in applied mathematics, and they have a permanent place...
EAN: 9780821837221
Leonhard Euler and the Bernoullis
In the 17th century, the city of Basel was the home of one of the most prominent mathematical...
EAN: 9781568814643
New Waves in Philosophy of Mathematics
Thirteen promising young researchers write on what they take to be the right philosophical...
EAN: 9780230219434
Collected Mathematical Papers of James Joseph Sylvester, Volume 1
Contains papers including the one on the theory of the Syzygetic Relations of two Rational...
EAN: 9780821836545
Statistical Visions in Time
This work documents the history of techniques that statisticians have used to manipulate...
EAN: 9780521023177
Introduction to Interactive Boundary Layer Theory
Presents an account of the development of laminar boundary layer theory as a historical study....
EAN: 9780198506751
Transformation of Mathematics in the Early Mediterranean World
This book analyzes the historical transformation of early mathematics, from a Greek practice...
EAN: 9780521829960
Hidden Unity in Nature's Laws
As physics has progressed through the ages it has succeeded in explaining more and more diverse...
EAN: 9780521650649
Music and Mathematics
From Ancient Greek times, music has been seen as a mathematical art, and this relationship has...
EAN: 9780199298938
Pappus of Alexandria and the Mathematics of Late Antiquity
This book is at once an analytical study of one of the most important mathematical texts of...
EAN: 9780521642118
Remarkable Mathematicians
In this 2003 book, Ioan James introduces and profiles sixty mathematicians, all born between 1700...
EAN: 9780521520942
Lebesgue's Theory of Integration
Places Lebesgue's early work on integration theory within in proper historical context by...
EAN: 9780821829639
Mathematics in Western Culture
This book gives a remarkably fine account of the influences mathematics has exerted on the...
EAN: 9780195007145
Man Who Loved Only Numbers
The biography of a mathematical genius. Paul Erdos was the most prolific pure mathematician in...
EAN: 9781857028294
Euclid's Window
Ever since Pythagoras hatched a 'little scheme' to invent a set of rules describing the entire...
EAN: 9780141009094
Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics
This book provides a way into understanding a momentous development in human intellectual...
EAN: 9780521541206
Chaos
Chaos exists in systems all around us. This introduction draws in philosophy, literature, and...
EAN: 9780192853783
Adventures of a Mathematician
An autobiography of mathematician Stanislaw Ulam, one of the great scientific minds of the...
EAN: 9780520071544
History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy
A study of the Western astronomical tradition from ancient Babylonia to the European Renaissance,...
EAN: 9780195095395
Saunders Mac Lane
This autobiography of Saunders Mac Lane, an extraordinary mathematician, takes the reader on a...
EAN: 9781568811505
Cauchy and the Creation of Complex Function Theory
Dr Smithies analyses the process whereby Cauchy created one of the most important branch of...
EAN: 9780521592789
