History of Mathematics

Drawing primarily from historical examples, this book explains the tremendous role that numbers and, in particular, mathematics play in all aspects...

Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is widely taken to be the starting point of the modern period of mathematics while David Hilbert was the la...

Imagine a giant snowflake in 196,884 dimensions... This is the story of a mathematical quest that began two hundred years ago in revolutionary Fr...

This edited volume, aimed at both students and researchers in philosophy, mathematics and history of science, highlights leading developments in th...

In Euclid's Window, Leonard Mlondinow takes us on a brilliantly entertaining journey through 3,000 years of genius and geometry, introducing the pe...

The Development of Mathematics in Medieval Europe complements the previous collection of articles by Menso Folkerts, Essays on Early Medieval Mathe...

The Poincaré Conjecture tells the story behind one of the world’s most confounding mathematical theories. Formulated in 1904 by Henri Poincaré, his...

In the early seventeenth century, the outcome of something as simple as a dice roll was consigned to the realm of unknowable chance. Mathematicians...

In this fascinating discussion of ancient mathematics, author Peter Rudman does not just chronicle the archeological record of what mathematics was...

This vividly illustrated history of the International Congress of Mathematicians — a meeting of mathematicians from around the world held roughly e...

Explore the hidden powers of math that shape us, influencing everything from our sense of justice to our perception of beauty.Archaeologists decodi...

This book deals with the mathematical sciences in medieval Islam, and focuses on three main themes. The first is that of the translation of texts (...

The central theme of this volume lies in the medieval consciousness of mathematics, and the variety of strategies adopted to apply it in other area...

One of the most imaginative mathematicians of the nineteenth century, Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865) changed the course of modern algebra w...

'Here is the story of algebra.' With this deceptively simple introduction, Unknown Quantity opens, thirty-eight centuries ago, at the time of Abrah...

This book traces the history of the MIT Department of Mathematics—one of the most important mathematics departments in the world—through candid, in...

This vividly illustrated history of the International Congress of Mathematicians — a meeting of mathematicians from around the world held roughly e...

Breaking the mold of existing calculus textbooks, Calculus in Context draws students into the subject in two new ways. Part I develops the mathema...