History of Mathematics

Emily Grosholz offers an original investigation of demonstration in mathematics and science, examining how it works and why it is persuasive. Focus...

The text presents and discusses some of the most influential papers in Matrix Computation authored by Gene H. Golub, one of the founding fathers of...

From the Preface: "This book is addressed to all who are curious about the nature of mathematics and its role in society. It is neither a text book...

What is the best way to photograph a speeding bullet? Why does light move through glass in the least amount of time possible? How can lost hikers f...

Back in print at last, this classic work by Calvin Clawson examines the remarkable co-evolution of numbers and human culture. From the early clay b...

Do you ever wonder about the origins of mathematical terms such as ergodic, biholomorphic, and strophoid? Here Anthony Lo Bello explains the roots ...

What makes mathematicians tick? How do their minds process formulas and concepts that, for most of the rest of the world's population, remain myste...

Throughout history, application rather than abstraction has been the prominent driving force in mathematics. From the compass and sextant to partia...

Here, in this first biographical study of James Joseph Sylvester, Karen Hunger Parshall makes a signal contribution to the history of mathematics, ...

A case study in the encounter of science and totalitarianism

This lively collection of essays examines in witty detail the history of some of the concepts involved in bringing statistical argument "to the tab...

The twentieth century was a time of unprecedented development in mathematics, as well as in all sciences: more theorems were proved and results fou...

By any measure, the Pythagorean theorem is the most famous statement in all of mathematics. In this book, Eli Maor reveals the full story of this u...

Mark Peterson makes an extraordinary claim in this fascinating book focused around the life and thought of Galileo: it was the mathematics of Renai...

One of the most prominent mathematicians of the twentieth century, Abraham Robinson discovered and developed nonstandard analysis, a rigorous theor...

Plato's Ghost is the first book to examine the development of mathematics from 1880 to 1920 as a modernist transformation similar to those in art, ...

An era of sweeping cultural change in America, the postwar years saw the rise of beatniks and hippies, the birth of feminism, and the release of th...

Until the Scientific Revolution, the nature and motions of heavenly objects were mysterious and unpredictable. The Scientific Revolution was revolu...

The book includes fifteen essays and an interview. The essays are grouped in three parts: Mathematics; Mathematics and Physics; and Language, Consc...