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Revised to make it more accessible to a general audience, A HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS paints a vivid picture of humankind's relationship with numbers. ... More

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This text is designed for the junior/senior mathematics major who intends to teach mathematics in high school or college. It concentrates on the ... More

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This book contains the papers developing out the presentations given at the International Conference organized by the Torino Academy of Sciences and ... More

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This textbook presents a unified view of mathematics and its historical development. It is aimed at senior undergraduates who have mastered the basic ... More

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Even though mathematics and physics have been related for centuries and this relation appears to be unproblematic, there are many questions still ... More

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This text is designed for the junior/senior mathematics major who intends to teach mathematics in high school or college. It concentrates on the ... More

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This is a concise introductory textbook for a one-term course in the history and philosophy of mathematics. It is written for mathematics majors, ... More

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This seminal collection gathers together many general writings of one of the world's leading historians of mathematics. Organized thematically, these ... More

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This book is the second volume of the Handbook of the History of General Topology. As was the case for the first volume, the contributions ... More

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Most popular books about science, and even about mathematics, tiptoe around equations as if they were something to be hidden from the reader's tender ... More

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The updated new edition of the classic and comprehensive guide to the history of mathematics For more than forty years, "A History of Mathematics" ... More

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Nicolas Bourbaki, whose mathematical publications began to appear in the late 1930s was a direct product as well as a major force behind an important ... More

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How mathematics shaped and was shaped by human events. Trigonometry, navigation, cartography, algebra, calculus and related disciplines from ancient ... More

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A fascinating and insightful collection of papers on the strong links between mathematics and culture. The contributions range from cinema and ... More

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The fundamentals of modern finite mathematics, including discrete methods, are introduced in this book. Theorems are explained, procedures and ... More

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An analysis of Newton's mathematical work, from early discoveries to mature reflections, and a discussion of Newton's views on the role and nature of ... More

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With breathtaking detail, Maria Georgiadou sheds light on the work and life of Constantin Caratheodory, who until now has been ignored by historians. ... More

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Mesopotamian mathematics is known from a great number of cuneiform texts, most of them Old Babyonian, some Late Babylonian or pre-Old-Babylonian, and ... More

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