History of Mathematics

The William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition is the most prestigious undergraduate mathematics problem-solving contest in North America, with ...

An engrossing look at the history and importance of a centuries-old but still unanswered math problemFor centuries, mathematicians the world over h...

Author, astrologer, journalist, satirist, and 'well-willer to the mathematics', Poor Robin of Saffron Walden was a fantastic, yet invented, figure ...

When Leonhard Euler first arrived at the Russian Academy of Sciences, at the age of 20, his career was supported and promoted by the Academys secre...

Im Jahre 1727 ging der erst zwanzigjährige Leonhard Euler an die neu gegründete Akademie der Wissenschaften in St. Petersburg, vermittelt durch sei...

Nearly a century before Mondrian made geometrical red, yellow, and blue lines famous, 19th-century mathematician Oliver Byrne employed the color sc...

An award-winning history of the Enlightenment quest to devise a mathematical model of rationalityWhat did it mean to be reasonable in the Age of Re...

Greenwich has been a centre for scientific computing since the foundation of the Royal Observatory in 1675. Early Astronomers Royal gathered astron...

A forgotten episode of mathematical resistance reveals the rise of modern mathematics and its cornerstone, mathematical purity, as political phenom...

Does syllogistic logic have the resources to capture mathematical proof? This volume provides the first unified account of the history of attempts ...

There exist literary histories of probability and scientific histories of probability, but it has generally been thought that the two did not meet....

There exist literary histories of probability and scientific histories of probability, but it has generally been thought that the two did not meet....

Alan Turing was an inspirational figure who is now recognised as a genius of modern mathematics. In addition to leading the Allied forces' code-bre...

Major shifts in the field of model theory in the twentieth century have seen the development of new tools, methods, and motivations for mathematici...

Searching for small gaps between consecutive primes is one way to approach the twin primes conjecture, one of the most celebrated unsolved problems...

Newton's Principia is perhaps the second most famous work of mathematics, after Euclid's Elements. Originally published in 1687, it gave the first ...

This volume of the Opera omnia includes Euler's correspondences in French with his Swiss countrymen Louis Bertrand, Charles Bonnet, Marc-Michel Bou...

The striking theorems showcased in this book are among the most profound results of twentieth-century analysis. The authors' original approach comb...

'Lucid and entertaining. With barely an equation in sight, Numbercrunch makes a passionate case for how just a little bit more numeracy could help ...

In diesem Band sind die nachgelassenen Schriften Moritz Schlicks zur Logik und Philosophie der Mathematik gesammelt, ediert und kommentiert. Keine ...

This volume brings together some of the best recent scholarship on what might be termed Einstein's formative period, that is, the thirty years be...

Der Band enthält 14 Korrespondenzen Eulers mit Gelehrten aus dem Umfeld der Universität Halle, der damals grössten und bedeutendsten Universität in...

An exploration of one of the most celebrated and well-known theorems in mathematicsBy any measure, the Pythagorean theorem is the most famous state...

In Waves in an Impossible Sea, physicist Matt Strassler tells a startling tale of elementary particles, human experience, and empty space. He begin...

Established in the early seventeenth century following a bequest to the university by Sir William Sedley, Oxford's Sedleian Professorship of Natura...

This monograph meticulously examines the contributions of French mathematician Michel Chasles to 19th-century geometry. Through an in-depth analysi...

A gripping exploration of how cartography shapes our world and the impact of maps on our everyday lives.If you have ever wondered why an airliner b...

Dieses Buch macht die überraschende Vielfalt der Personen und Tätigkeiten in der Radioaktivitätsforschung sichtbar. Dabei wird der Begriff der wiss...

Sobald Sie sich eingehender mit der Geschichte der Mathematik beschäftigen, werden Sie auch auf Personen stoßen, deren Namen Ihnen bislang unbekann...

A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Anaximander is a delight and so is this book' -- James McConnachie, Sunday TimesNow widely available in English for the fir...

The texts in these four volumes deal with the history and philosophy of mathematics and its applications. The first three volumes are devoted to th...

The texts in these four volumes deal with the history and philosophy of mathematics and its applications. The first three volumes are devoted to th...

The texts in these four volumes deal with the history and philosophy of mathematics and its applications. The first three volumes are devoted to th...

The texts in these four volumes deal with the history and philosophy of mathematics and its applications. The first three volumes are devoted to th...

A History of Mathematics, Third Edition, provides students with a solid background in the history of mathematics and focuses on the most important ...

A FINANCIAL TIMES AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEARAn exhilarating new biography of John von Neumann: the lost genius who invented our world'A sparkling boo...

In the mid-eighteenth century, Swiss-born mathematician Leonhard Euler developed a formula so innovative and complex that it continues to inspire r...

We all played tag when we were kids. What most of us don't realize is that this simple chase game is in fact an application of pursuit theory, and ...

Dieses Werk ist eine Einführung in philosophische Probleme und Hintergründe des mathematischen Denkens, Lehrens und Lernens. Es beinhaltet mathemat...

The Archimedes Palimpsest is the name given to a Byzantine prayer book that was written over a number of earlier manuscripts, including one that co...

This book both articulates and responds to increasing scholarly interest in the materiality of the book. Taking as its base the unique collection o...

A remarkable account of Kurt Gödel, weaving together creative genius, mental illness, political corruption, and idealism in the face of the turmoil...

The Archimedes Palimpsest is the name given to a Byzantine prayer book that was written over a number of earlier manuscripts, including one that co...