History of Mathematics

Inspired by Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and Bertrand Russell and David Hilbert's pursuit of the fundamental rules of mathematics, some o...

Fascinating so enlightening that suddenly maths doesnt seem so fearsome as it once did SIMON WINCHESTER From Aristotle to A...

Science is based not only on observation and experiment, but on theory as well. As Einstein said, Theory tells us what to measure. And theories are...

How music has influenced mathematics, physics, and astronomy from ancient Greece to the twentieth centuryMusic is filled with mathematical elements...

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

In a series of 50 accessible essays, Tony Crilly explains and introduces the mathematical laws and principles - ancient and modern, theoretical and...

We see numbers on automobile license plates, addresses, weather reports, and, of course, on our smartphones. Yet we look at these numbers for thei...

From the cubit to the kilogram, the humble inch to the speed of light, measurement is a powerful tool that humans invented to make sense of the wor...

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...