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Already climbing the bestseller lists-and garnering rave reviews this "little masterpiece" sheds brilliant light on the equation that changed the world.Bodanis begins by devoting chapters to each of the equation's letters and symbols, introducing the...

Used today in spheres of life as diverse as business strategy, creative writing, medicine, computer science, and theoretical physics, Venn diagrams possess fascinating properties. The basic Venn diagram is both elegantly simple-three overlapping circles...

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 axiomatically defined constructs like groups, rings, and fields. Taming the Unknown considers how these two...

A physicist explores the history of mathematics among the Babylonians and Egyptians, showing how their scribes in the era from 2000 to 1600 BCE used visualizations of plane geometric figures to invent geometric algebra, even solving problems that we now...

In 1770, one of the founders of pure mathematics, Swiss mathematician Leonard Euler (1707-1783), published Elements of Algebra, a mathematics textbook for students. This edition of Euler's classic, published in 1822, is an English translation which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999140208Author Klaus TruemperFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Leibniz CompanyPublisher Leibniz CompanyWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Mathematical pluralism is the view that there is an irreducible plurality of pure mathematical structures, each with their own internal logics; and that qua pure mathematical structures they are all equally legitimate. Mathematical pluralism is a...

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Category theory is a general mathematical theory of structures and of structures of structures. It occupied a central position in contemporary mathematics as well as computer science. This book describes the history of category theory whereby...

Mathematicians and lay people alike will enjoy this fascinating book that details the life of George Green, a pioneer in the application of mathematics to physical problems. Green was a mathematical physicist who spent most of the first 40 years of his...

This is a charming garden-path survey of many big names and big ideas in the history of mathematics, replete with funny anecdotes, delightful puzzles, and challenging problems that will help you understand logic, math, and the world around you as never...

The Moscow Mathematical Olympiad has been challenging high-school students with stimulating, original problems of different degrees of difficulty for over 75 years. The problems are nonstandard; solving them takes wit, thinking outside the box, and,...

From bestselling author and mathematician Ian Stewart, the fascinating story of the extreme problems that have driven math forward from antiquity to today"Stewart has a genius for explanation."-New ScientistMany of the deepest and most important areas of...

In the early twentieth century, Hausdorff developed an axiomatic approach to topology, which continues to be the foundation of modern topology. The present book, the English translation of the third edition of Hausdorff's Mengenlehre, is a thorough...

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A Cultural History of Mathematics in the Nineteenth Century covers the period from 1800 to 1914, an era shaped by expanding European empires and vastly improved systems of transportation and communication. Widening access to schools improved mathematical...

A Cultural History of Mathematics in the Eighteenth Century covers the period from 1687 to 1800. Advances in the use of calculus opened up both nature and society to mathematical analysis, while mathematical skills became increasingly valuable in ongoing...

A Cultural History of Mathematics in the Early Modern Age covers the period from 1450 to 1687, a time marked by increasing interplay between science and society. Classical writing on science which had been lost and Arabic thinking which was new both...

A Cultural History of Mathematics in the Medieval Age covers the period from 500 to 1450, focusing in particular on the innovations in East and South Asia and in Islamicate cultures. With the invention of algebra and the decimal place-value number system...

A Cultural History of Mathematics in the Modern Age covers the period from 1914 to today. Across the Twentieth Century, mathematics influenced two World Wars and the shape of modern warfare, nuclear technology, and the space age, while the certainties of...

A Cultural History of Mathematics in Antiquity covers the period from 3000 BCE to 500 CE, exploring the great richness and diversity of mathematical thought and activity across the ancient world. Our modern notion of mathematics - and the word itself -...

This is the second volume of a three-volume treatise which presents the mathematical foundations of systems and control theory in a self-contained, comprehensive, detailed and mathematically rigorous way. The work combines the features of a detailed...

Mean-Field-Type Game Theory I is the first of two volumes that together form a comprehensive treatment of mean-field-type game theory and applications, focused on finding state-of-the-art solutions to issues surrounding the next generation of cloud...

This book examines the creation and character of mathematical training at Bryn Mawr College between 1885 and 1926 under the leadership of Charlotte Angas Scott. Though designated as a college, Bryn Mawr boasted the world’s first graduate degree programs...

The Practice of Mathematics: An Introduction to Proof Techniques and Number Systems is designed to help students prepare for higher-level mathematics courses through an introduction to the methods and practices of logic and proof. The book uses the...

Hermann Weyl was one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century. Viewing mathematics as an organic whole rather than a collection of separate subjects, Weyl made profound contributions to a wide range of areas, including analysis,...

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 thought the Pythagoreans had treated mathematics as essential for drawing the human soul upwards to higher...

This is the story of the intellectual and social life of a community, and of its interactions with the wider world. For eight centuries mathematics has been researched and studied at Oxford, and the subject and its teaching have undergone profound...

This volume commemorates the work of Alan Turing, because it was Turing who not only introduced the most persuasive and influential concept of a machine model of effective computability but who also anticipated in his work the diversity of topics brought...

Solving mathematical problmes is a favourite pastime of many people, from school students to professional research mathematicians. The aim of this book is to provide a wide variety of problems suitable for teenagers and students which will stimulate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954358669Author Maria MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Math MammothPublisher Math MammothWeight(grams) 508gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 11mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954358683Author Maria MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Math MammothPublisher Math MammothWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798893030303Author Rob EastawayFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint The Experiment LLCPublisher The Experiment LLCWeight(grams) 334gDimensions(mm) 224mm *...

How should we think about the meaning of the words that make up our language? How does reference of these terms work, and what is their referent when these are connected to abstract objects rather than to concrete ones? Can logic help to address these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589473485Author School ZoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint School ZonePublisher School ZoneWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 274mm * 193mm * 10mm

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This book presents, in his own words, the life of Hugo Steinhaus (1887-1972), noted Polish mathematician of Jewish background, educator, and mathematical popularizer. A student of Hilbert, a pioneer of the foundations of probability and game theory, and...

This book presents, in his own words, the life of Hugo Steinhaus (1887-1972), noted Polish mathematician of Jewish background, educator, and mathematical popularizer. A student of Hilbert, a pioneer of the foundations of probability and game theory, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848901735Author Sujata GhoshFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint College PublicationsPublisher College Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627951968Author Tom JacksonFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Shelter Harbor PressPublisher Shelter Harbor Press