History of Mathematics
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Pythagoras in the Corner: Introduction
Adam JohnstonCurrent price €15.91Original price €18.50In this volume of a series of books, we look at the themes that affect everyone. Mathematics can be complicated and difficult to understand, and by...
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A Brief History of Mathematical Thought: Key concepts and where they come from
Luke HeatonCurrent price €16.63Original price €17.50Mathematics is a product of human culture which has developed along with our attempts to comprehend the world around us. In A Brief History of Math...
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Mathematics - An Illustrated History of Numbers
Tom JacksonCurrent price €17.58Original price €18.50Current price €17.58Original price €18.50Save 5% -
Count Like an Egyptian: A Hands-on Introduction to Ancient Mathematics
David ReimerCurrent price €34.68Original price €36.50The mathematics of ancient Egypt was fundamentally different from our math today. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn't a primitive foreru...
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Hypatia: Mathematician, Philosopher, Myth
Charlotte BoothCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50This biography of Hypatia the female philosopher and mathematician in Christian Egypt provides background on her work and her life as an elite woma...
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Count Us In: How to Make Maths Real for All of Us
Gareth Ffowc RobertsCurrent price €14.55Original price €15.99Mathematics, like language, is a universal experience. Every society counts and is empowered by its ability to count and to measure. The mathematic...
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Quite Right: The Story of Mathematics, Measurement, and Money
Norman BiggsCurrent price €37.04Original price €38.99Mathematics did not spring spontaneously into life, with rules set in stone for all time. Its story is closely linked with the problems of measurem...
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The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
Ananyo BhattacharyaCurrent price €20.83Original price €24.50A FINANCIAL TIMES AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEARAn exhilarating new biography of John von Neumann: the lost genius who invented our world''A sparkling bo...
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Encounters with Euclid: How an Ancient Greek Geometry Text Shaped the World
Benjamin WardhaughCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50An astonishingly readable and informative history of the greatest mathematical bestseller of all time The writing is vivid and the st...
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The Discrete Charm of the Machine: Why the World Became Digital
Ken SteiglitzCurrent price €22.94Original price €26.99The genesis of the digital idea and why it transformed civilizationA few short decades ago, we were informed by the smooth signals of analog televi...
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Art And Practice Of Mathematics, The: Interviews At The Institute For Mathematical Sciences, National University Of Singapore, 2010-2019
Yu Kiang LeongCurrent price €127.29Original price €133.99This book constitutes the second volume of interviews with prominent mathematicians and mathematical scientists invited to the Institute for Mathem...
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Are Numbers Real?: The Uncanny Relationships Between Maths and the Physical World
Brian CleggCurrent price €18.04Original price €18.99Have you ever wondered what humans did before numbers existed? How they organized their lives, traded goods, or kept track of their treasures? What...
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Paradigm Shift Knuckle Sandwich
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Ponderables - Mathematics: An Illustrated History of Numbers
Tom JacksonCurrent price €20.89Original price €21.99Legend has it that the first magic square, where all lines and diagonals add up to the same figure, was revealed more than 2,000 years ago when a r...
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The Mathematics of Various Entertaining Subjects: Research in Games, Graphs, Counting, and Complexity, Volume 2
Princeton University PressCurrent price €54.14Original price €56.99The history of mathematics is filled with major breakthroughs resulting from solutions to recreational problems. Problems of interest to gamblers l...
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99 Variations on a Proof
Philip OrdingCurrent price €23.28Original price €24.50An exploration of mathematical style through 99 different proofs of the same theoremThis book offers a multifaceted perspective on mathematics by d...
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The Discrete Charm of the Machine: Why the World Became Digital
Ken SteiglitzCurrent price €24.29Original price €26.99The genesis of the digital idea and why it transformed civilizationA few short decades ago, we were informed by the smooth signals of analog televi...
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String, Straight-edge and Shadow: The Story of Geometry
Julia E. DigginsCurrent price €15.46Original price €16.99Please note that this Floris Books edition has been revised for UK and European notation, language and metric systems.From the early peoples who ma...
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Studies in the History of Mathematical Logic
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The Best Writing on Mathematics 2016
Princeton University PressCurrent price €37.99Original price €39.99The year's finest mathematics writing from around the world This annual anthology brings together the year's finest mathematics writing from aroun...
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