History of Mathematics

The two works titled What Are and What Should the Numbers Be? (1888) and Continuity and Irrational Numbers (1872) are Dedekind's contributions to t...

Math's infinite mysteries unfold in this updated edition of the award-winning The Math Book. Beginning millions of years ago with ancient ant odome...

A marvelous compendium of mathematical symbols and their fascinating historiesGalileo famously wrote that the book of nature is written in mathemat...

This collection of essays reflects the author's decades-long dedication to studying the interplay between mechanics and architecture. It explores h...

A celebration of the seemingly simple idea that allowed us to imagine the world in new dimensionssparking both controversy and discovery.    The s...

Since its introduction by Hans Reichenbach, many philosophers have claimed to refute the idea known as the common cause principle that any surpri...

A sweeping intellectual biography that restores the Enlightenment polymath to the intellectual, scientific, and courtly worlds that shaped his earl...

This open access book provides a fresh perspective on analysis and synthesis across several areas of inquiry. The two operations form a primary bas...

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

This book provides the reader with a comprehensive account of the contributions of Pythagoras to mathematics and philosophy, using them as a starti...

This book provides the reader with a comprehensive account of the contributions of Pythagoras to mathematics and philosophy, using them as a starti...

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (16461716) was the Benjamin Franklin of Europe, a universal genius who ranged across many fields and made breakthroughs i...

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

A revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of maths'Lively, satisfying, good at explaining difficult concepts' The Sunday...

This monograph traces the development of projective geometry from its Greek origins to the early 20th century. It covers Renaissance perspective st...

In MATH WITH BAD DRAWINGS, Ben Orlin answers math's three big questions: Why do I need to learn this? When am I ever going to use it? Why is it so ...

René Descartes: The Complete Correspondence in English Translation is the first complete English translation of the extant correspondence of the po...