History of Mathematics

This book, aimed at the general reader, is the first full-length biography of George Boole (1815 - 1864) who has been variously described as the fo...

A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice: A vivid account of the generations-long dispute over Bayes rule, one of the greatest breakthroughs in ...

Did you know there are 17 possible types of symmetric wallpaper pattern? Do you know what casting out the nines is? Or why 88 is the fourth untouch...

Instant Mathematics pulls together all the pivotal mathematical theories and discoveries into one concise volume. Each page contains a discrete 'ch...

In pre-Revolutionary France, geometry merged with algebra to form the basis of the Calculus. But the journey algebra had taken to this pivotal mome...

Science & Scientists in Berlin is a richly illustrated guidebook providing informative biographies of 22 major scientists and 11 mathematicians...

Quadratic equations, Pythagoras theorem, imaginary numbers, and pi you may remember studying these at school, but did anyone ever explain why? Nev...

During the period of national isolation, a mathematical tradition called wasan flourished in Japan. Though virtually unknown to Europeans before th...