History & Philosophy

Paris of the year 1900 left two landmarks: the Tour Eiffel, and David Hilbert's celebrated list of twenty-four mathematical problems presented at a conference opening the new century. Kurt Goedel, a logical icon of that time, showed Hilbert's ideal of...

This Handbook explores the history of mathematics under a series of themes which raise new questions about what mathematics has been and what it has meant to practise it. It addresses questions of who creates mathematics, who uses it, and how. A broader...

What is the source of logical and mathematical truth? This volume revitalizes conventionalism as an answer to this question. Conventionalism takes logical and mathematical truth to have their source in linguistic conventions. This was an extremely...

Circles Disturbed brings together important thinkers in mathematics, history, and philosophy to explore the relationship between mathematics and narrative. The book's title recalls the last words of the great Greek mathematician Archimedes before he was...

Is mathematics a highly sophisticated intellectual game in which the adepts display their skill by tackling invented problems, or are mathematicians engaged in acts of discovery as they explore an independent realm of mathematical reality? Why does this...

The collected works of Turing, including a substantial amount of unpublished material, will comprise four volumes: Mechanical Intelligence, Pure Mathematics, Morphogenesis and Mathematical Logic. Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954) was a brilliant man who...

Winner of the 1983 National Book Award!"...a perfectly marvelous book about the Queen of Sciences, from which one will get a real feeling for what mathematicians do and who they are. The exposition is clear and full of wit and humor..." - The New Yorker...

James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) had a relatively brief, but remarkable life, lived in his beloved rural home of Glenlair, and variously in Edinburgh, Aberdeen, London and Cambridge. His scholarship also ranged wide - covering all the major aspects of...

There is a growing awareness among researchers in the humanities and social sciences of the rhetorical force of mathematical discourse-whether in regard to gerrymandering, facial recognition technologies, or racial biases in algorithmic automation. This...

Most people are familiar with history's great equations: Newton's Law of Gravity, for instance, or Einstein's theory of relativity. But the way these mathematical breakthroughs have contributed to human progress is seldom appreciated. In In Pursuit of...

Bertrand Russell changed Western philosophy forever. He tackled many puzzles--how our minds work, how we experience the world, and what the true nature of meaning is. In "Introducing Bertrand Russell "we meet a passionate eccentric, active in world...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952178030Author Scott OlsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Wooden BooksPublisher Wooden BooksWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 168mm * 140mm * 8mm

Basic Gambling Mathematics: The Numbers Behind the Neon, Second Edition explains the mathematics involved in analyzing games of chance, including casino games, horse racing and other sports, and lotteries. The book helps readers understand 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 thought the Pythagoreans had treated mathematics as essential for drawing the human soul upwards to higher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316082594Author Thinking, Pi in the Sky: CountingFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904987420Author Maria Carla GalavottiFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint College PublicationsPublisher College PublicationsWeight(grams)...

A comprehensive look at four of the most famous problems in mathematicsTales of Impossibility recounts the intriguing story of the renowned problems of antiquity, four of the most famous and studied questions in the history of mathematics. First posed by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541601826Author Eugenia ChengFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 155mm * 43mm

This volume contains English translations of Goedel's chapters on logicism and the antinomies and on the calculi of pure logic, as well as outlines for a chapter on metamathematics. It also comprises most of his reading notes. This book is a...

The aim of this book is to explain the shape of Greek mathematical thinking. It can be read on three levels: as a description of the practices of Greek mathematics; as a theory of the emergence of the deductive method; and as a case-study for a general...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983700401Author Brenda RiddellFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Docent PressPublisher Docent PressWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

We all learned that the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter is called pi and that the value of this algebraic symbol is roughly 3.14. What we weren't told, though, is that behind this seemingly mundane fact is a world of mystery, which...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Computing systems are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940490758Author Karen NejatFormat HardbackPage Count 347Imprint American Oriental SocietyPublisher American Oriental SocietyWeight(grams)...

Learn about the most important mathematical ideas, theorems, and movements in The Math Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Math in this overview...

The history of mathematics is filled with major breakthroughs resulting from solutions to recreational problems. Problems of interest to gamblers led to the modern theory of probability, for example, and surreal numbers were inspired by the game of Go...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789062037858Author Michael MasiFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Editions Rodopi B.V.Publisher BrillWeight(grams) 321g

This Element explores the relationship between phenomenology and mathematics. Its focus is the mathematical thought of Edmund Husserl, founder of phenomenology, but other phenomenologists and phenomenologically-oriented mathematicians, including Weyl,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942715009Author Dr Maria MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Math MammothPublisher Math MammothWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781579550394Author Cliff HastingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Wolfram Media IncPublisher Wolfram Media Inc

In the year 1889 Sofya Vasilievna Kovalevskaya, Profes- sor of Mathematics at the University of Stockholm, pub- lished her recollections of growing up in mid-nineteenth century Russia. Professor Kovalevskaya was already an international celebrity, and...

While many books have been written about Bertrand Russell's philosophy and some on his logic, I. Grattan-Guinness has written the first comprehensive history of the mathematical background, content, and impact of the mathematical logic and philosophy of...

Kurt Goedel (1906 - 1978) was the most outstanding logician of the twentieth century, famous for his hallmark works on the completeness of logic, the incompleteness of number theory, and the consistency of the axiom of choice and the continuum hypothesis...

Between inventing the concept of a universal computer in 1936 and breaking the German Enigma code during World War II, Alan Turing (1912-1954), the British founder of computer science and artificial intelligence, came to Princeton University to study...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681620107Author Hal HellmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Trade Paper PressPublisher Trade Paper Press

Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is widely taken to be the starting point of the modern period of mathematics while David Hilbert was the last great mainstream mathematician to pursue important nineteenth cnetury ideas. This two-volume work...

A mind-bending excursion to the limits of science and mathematics Are some scientific problems insoluble? In Beyond Reason, internationally acclaimed math and science author A. K. Dewdney answers this question by examining eight insurmountable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486249490Author C.W. TriggFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 256gDimensions(mm)...

Indian Mathematics gives a unique insight into the history of mathematics within a historical global context. It builds on research into the connection between mathematics and the world-wide advancement of economics and technology. Joseph draws out...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480895348Author Roland A BoucherFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Archway PublishingPublisher Archway PublishingWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm)...