Philosophy of Mathematics

This book provides the first English translation of the Greek text of the Spherics of Theodosios (2nd-1st century BCE), a canonical mathematical an...

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...

This is the first wide-ranging analysis of Alain Badious use, development and transformation of the concept of history. Despite the wealth of persp...

A stimulating intellectual history of Ptolemy's philosophy and his conception of a world in which mathematics reigns supremeThe Greco-Roman mathema...

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

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

Ed Freemans influential ideas on stakeholder theory, business ethics, humanities, and capitalism became foundational in the management field and tu...

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

Originally published in 1994, The Incommensurability Thesis is a critical study of the Incommensurability Thesis of Thomas Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend...

Originally published in 1923 Chance and Error examines the vagaries of chance, and how this is the result of the interference of yes and no. The bo...

Tessellations: Mathematics, Art and Recreation aims to present a comprehensive introduction to tessellations (tiling) at a level accessible to non-...

People tend to rank values of all kinds linearly from good to bad, but there is little reason to think that this is reasonable or correct. This boo...

This edited collection is the first of its kind to explore the view called perspectivism in philosophy of science. The book brings together an arra...

Originally published in 1976. This comprehensive study discusses in detail the philosophical, mathematical, physical, logical and theological aspec...

The nature of reality has been a long-debated issue among scientists and philosophers. In 1930, Rabindranath Tagore and Albert Einstein had a long ...

This book is a collection of essays that offer original logical and philosophical investigations into the century-long endeavor to understand parad...

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...

Originally published in 1923 Chance and Error examines the vagaries of chance, and how this is the result of the interference of yes and no. The bo...

For science to remain a legitimate and trustworthy source of knowledge, society will have to engage in the collective processes of knowledge co-pro...

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

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

This book provides a philosophy of mathematics that resonates with critical mathematics education. It draws attention to the social complexities th...

Was ist Mathematik? auf diese Frage gibt dieses dicke Buch zahllose Antworten. Mathematik ist eben viel mehr als ein Schul- und Studienfach oder R...

If Mathematics had a Rosetta Stone...In this trailblazing work from the internet's most empathetic math teacher, Ben Orlin unravels the secrets beh...

This volume brings together twelve previously unpublished essays on the theme of Wittgenstein on practice and on the insight that careful attention...