History of Mathematics

On the General Science of Mathematics is the third of four surviving works out of ten by Iamblichus (c. 245 CE–early 320s) on the Pythagoreans. He ...

The Hindu-Arabic numeral system (1, 2, 3,…) is one of mankind's greatest achievements and one of its most commonly used inventions. How did it orig...

After 30 years of research, the author of The History of Correlation organized his notes into a manuscript draft during the lockdown months of the ...

In the 20th century, many mathematicians in Russia made great contributions to the field of mathematics. This invaluable book, which presents the m...

In 1202, a 32-year old Italian finished one of the most influential books of all time, which introduced modern arithmetic to Western Europe. Devise...

This book features interviews of 38 eminent mathematicians and mathematical scientists who were invited to participate in the programs of the Insti...

As modern mathematics has been developed by mathematicians over the past several hundred years, it is interesting to trace the academic genealogy o...

In this unique insight into the history and philosophy of mathematics and science in the mediaeval Arab world, the eminent scholar Roshdi Rashed il...

This groundbreaking work features two essays written by the renowned mathematician Ilan Vardi. The first essay presents a thorough analysis of cont...

This volume focuses on the importance of historical enquiry for the appreciation of philosophical problems concerning mathematics. It contains a we...

Mesopotamian mathematics is known from a great number of cuneiform texts, most of them Old Babylonian, some Late Babylonian or pre-Old-Babylonian, ...

In 1913, Russian imperial marines stormed an Orthodox monastery at Mt. Athos, Greece, to haul off monks engaged in a dangerously heretical practice...

This book offers an archeology of the undeveloped potential of mathematics for critical theory. As Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno first conce...

Mathematics was integral to Mesopotamian scribal culture: indeed, writing was invented towards the end of the fourth millennium BC for the express ...

Why is 7 such a lucky number and 13 so unlucky? Why does a jury traditionally have '12 good men and true', and why are there 24 hours in the day an...

From Pythagoreans to Hegel, and beyond, this book gives a brief overview of the history of the notion of graphs and introduces the main concepts of...

Fascinating Mathematical People is a collection of informal interviews and memoirs of sixteen prominent members of the mathematical community of th...

The International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) is currently implementing the greatest change ever in the world's system of weights and mea...

In 1503, for the first time, a student in Paris was able to spend his entire university career studying only the printed textbooks of his teacher, ...

Hailed as one of the greatest mathematical results of the twentieth century, the recent proof of Fermat's Last Theorem by Andrew Wiles brought to p...

The German philosopher and mathematician Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) was the father of analytic philosophy and to all intents and purposes the invent...

The Correspondence of John Wallis (1616 -1703) is a critically acclaimed resource in the history of early modern science. Volume IV covers the peri...

Triangular arrays are a unifying thread throughout various areas of discrete mathematics such as number theory and combinatorics. They can be used ...

This is the fascinating story of two women who lives were guided by a passion for mathematics and an insatiable curiosity to know and understand th...