History of Mathematics

The volume contains selected articles presented in the ZOOM conference on History of Mathematics in Jain Literature, December 2020, and also contai...

This Handbook explores the history of mathematics under a series of themes which raise new questions about what mathematics has been and what it ha...

This volume provides a unique primary source on the history and philosophy of mathematics and science from the mediaeval Arab world. The fourth vol...

What is algebra? For some, it is an abstract language of x's and y’s. For mathematics majors and professional mathematicians, it is a world of axio...

Surviving fragments of information about Pythagoras (born ca. 570 BCE) gave rise to a growing set of legends about this famous sage and his followe...

The bestselling editor of This Explains Everything brings together 175 of the world's most brilliant minds to tackle Edge.org's 2014 question: What...

Molecular biology as a distinct scientific discipline had its origins in chemistry and physical biochemistry, gradually emerging in the period betw...

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COUNT? WHY ARE HUMANS THE ONLY SPECIES ON EARTH THAT CAN DO IT? WHERE DID COUNTING COME FROM? HOW HAS IT SHAPED S...

Paul Lockhart’s Mathematician’s Lament outlined how we introduce math to students in the wrong way. Measurement explains how math should be done. W...

Reviving an educational tradition involves a double task. A new generation of students must be taught, and at the same time the teachers themselves...

Mathematics holds a central place in the traditional liberal arts. The four mathematical disciplines of the quadrivium-arithmetic, geometry, music,...

A fascinating look into how the transformative joys of mathematical experience are available to everyone, not just specialists   Math has a reputat...

The great mathematician Archimedes, a Sicilian Greek whose machines defended Syracuse against the Romans during the Second Punic War, was killed by...

Fractions are everywhere and yet most of us learn only basic and rather dry facts about fractions in primary school. This book makes fractions come...

Essentials of Mathematical Thinking addresses the growing need to better comprehend mathematics today. Increasingly, our world is driven by mathema...

Chaos exists in systems all around us. Even the simplest system of cause and effect can be subject to chaos, denying us accurate predictions of its...

The Mathematician's Brain poses a provocative question about the world's most brilliant yet eccentric mathematical minds: were they brilliant becau...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024'Fascinating, witty and perspective-shifting . . . I finished it not only better i...

This book deals with the mathematics of the medieval West between ca. 500 and 1100, the period before the translations from Arabic and Greek had th...

This extraordinary work takes the reader on a long and fascinating journey--from the dual invention of numbers and language, through the major real...

This anthology, consisting of two volumes, is intended to equip background researchers, practitioners and students of international mathematics edu...

A History of Mathematics Education during the Twentieth Century describes the history of mathematics education in the United States with conceptual...

This is a popular book that chronicles the historical attempts to prove the fifth postulate of Euclid on parallel lines that led eventually to the ...

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...