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Invitation to Mathematics by Konrad Jacobs 9780691025285
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £55.68Based on a well-received course designed for philosophy students, this book is an informal introduction to mathematical thinking. The work will be rewarding not only for philosophers concerned with... -
Four Colors Suffice: How the Map Problem Was Solved - Revised Color Edition by Robin Wilson 9780691158228
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.69On October 23, 1852, Professor Augustus De Morgan wrote a letter to a colleague, unaware that he was launching one of the most famous mathematical conundrums in history--one that would confound... -
Henri Poincare: A Scientific Biography by Jeremy Gray 9780691242033
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.01A comprehensive look at the mathematics, physics, and philosophy of Henri PoincareHenri Poincare (1854-1912) was not just one of the most inventive, versatile, and productive mathematicians of all... -
Georg Cantor: His Mathematics and Philosophy of the Infinite by Joseph Warren Dauben
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £57.50One of the greatest revolutions in mathematics occurred when Georg Cantor (1845-1918) promulgated his theory of transfinite sets. This revolution is the subject of Joseph Dauben's important studythe... -
Mathematics and Art: A Cultural History by Lynn Gamwell 9780691165288
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £52.49This is a cultural history of mathematics and art, from antiquity to the present. Mathematicians and artists have long been on a quest to understand the physical world they see before them and the... -
Euler's Gem: The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology by David S. Richeson 9780691191379
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.21How a simple equation reshaped mathematicsLeonhard Euler's polyhedron formula describes the structure of many objects-from soccer balls and gemstones to Buckminster Fuller's buildings and giant... -
Euler's Gem: The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology by David S. Richeson 9780691154572
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.28Leonhard Euler's polyhedron formula describes the structure of many objects--from soccer balls and gemstones to Buckminster Fuller's buildings and giant all-carbon molecules. Yet Euler's formula is... -
Prime Suspects: The Anatomy of Integers and Permutations by Andrew Granville 9780691149158
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.54An outrageous graphic novel that investigates key concepts in mathematicsIntegers and permutations-two of the most basic mathematical objects-are born of different fields and analyzed with separate... -
Codes And Modular Forms: A Dictionary by Minjia Shi
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £71.72There are connections between invariant theory and modular forms since the times of Felix Klein, in the 19th century, connections between codes and lattices since the 1960's. The aim of the book is... -
Adaptive Hierarchical Isogeometric Finite Element Methods by Anh-Vu Vuong 9783834824448
Booksplease Price: £46.28Isogeometric finite elements combine the numerical solution of partial differential equations and the description of the computational domain given by rational splines from computer aided geometric... -
Finite Moebius Groups, Minimal Immersions of Spheres, and Moduli by Gabor Toth 9780387953236
Booksplease Price: £90.86"Spherical soap bubbles", isometric minimal immersions of round spheres into round spheres, or spherical immersions for short, belong to a fast growing and fascinating area between algebra and... -
Finite Moebius Groups, Minimal Immersions of Spheres, and Moduli by Gabor Toth 9781461265467
Booksplease Price: £92.27"Spherical soap bubbles", isometric minimal immersions of round spheres into round spheres, or spherical immersions for short, belong to a fast growing and fascinating area between algebra and... -
The Didactics of Mathematics: Approaches and Issues: A Homage to Michele Artigue by Bernard R. Hodgson 9783319260464
Booksplease Price: £90.86This book, the outcome of a conference organised in 2012 in Paris as a homage to Michele Artigue, is based on the main component of this event. However, it offers more than a mere reflection of the... -
The Didactics of Mathematics: Approaches and Issues: A Homage to Michele Artigue by Bernard R Hodgson 9783319798820
Booksplease Price: £91.38This book, the outcome of a conference organised in 2012 in Paris as a homage to Michele Artigue, is based on the main component of this event. However, it offers more than a mere reflection of the... -
Beliefs and Mathematics: Festschrift in Honor of Guenter Toerner's 60th Birthday by Bharath Sriraman 9781593118693
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £67.30Beliefs and Mathematics is a Festschrift honoring the contributions of Gunter Toerner to mathematics education and mathematics. Mathematics Education as a legitimate area of research emerged from the... -
Beliefs and Mathematics: Festschrift in Honor of Guenter Toerner's 60th Birthday by Bharath Sriraman 9781593118686
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.87Beliefs and Mathematics is a Festschrift honoring the contributions of Gunter Toerner to mathematics education and mathematics. Mathematics Education as a legitimate area of research emerged from the... -
The Method of Equivalence and its Applications by Robert B. Gardner 9780898712407
RRP: £59.00Booksplease Price: £53.93The ideas of Elie Cartan are combined with the tools of Felix Klein and Sophus Lie to present in this book the only detailed treatment of the method of equivalence. An algorithmic description of this... -
Flag-transitive Steiner Designs by Michael Huber 9783034600019
Booksplease Price: £24.63The characterization of combinatorial or geometric structures in terms of their groups of automorphisms has attracted considerable interest in the last decades and is now commonly viewed as a natural... -
Lectures on Number Theory by Adolf Hurwitz 9780387962368
Booksplease Price: £92.06During the academic year 1916-1917 I had the good fortune to be a student of the great mathematician and distinguished teacher Adolf Hurwitz, and to attend his lectures on the Theory of Functions at... -
International Perspectives on Social Justice in Mathematics Education by Bharath Sriraman 9781593118808
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.16International Perspectives and Research on Social Justice in Mathematics Education is the highly acclaimed inaugural monograph of The Montana Mathematics Enthusiast now available through IAP. The... -
The Noether Theorems: Invariance and Conservation Laws in the Twentieth Century by Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach 9780387878676
RRP: £74.99Booksplease Price: £70.88In 1915 and 1916 Emmy Noether was asked by Felix Klein and David Hilbert to assist them in understanding issues involved in any attempt to formulate a general theory of relativity, in particular the... -
The Noether Theorems: Invariance and Conservation Laws in the Twentieth Century by Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach 9781461427681
Booksplease Price: £80.24In 1915 and 1916 Emmy Noether was asked by Felix Klein and David Hilbert to assist them in understanding issues involved in any attempt to formulate a general theory of relativity, in particular the... -
International Perspectives on Social Justice in Mathematics Education by Bharath Sriraman 9781593118815
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £67.30International Perspectives and Research on Social Justice in Mathematics Education is the highly acclaimed inaugural monograph of The Montana Mathematics Enthusiast now available through IAP. The... -
Geometries by A. B. Sossinsky 9780821875711
RRP: £51.00Booksplease Price: £50.00The book is an innovative modern exposition of geometry, or rather, of geometries; it is the first textbook in which Felix Klein's Erlangen Program (the action of transformation groups) is... -
Space, Number, and Geometry from Helmholtz to Cassirer by Francesca Biagioli 9783319317779
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book offers a reconstruction of the debate on non-Euclidean geometry in neo-Kantianism between the second half of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century. Kant... -
A Ludic Journey into Geometric Topology by Ton Marar 9783031074448
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book draws on elements from everyday life, architecture, and the arts to provide the reader with elementary notions of geometric topology. Pac Man, subway maps, and architectural blueprints are... -
Space, Number, and Geometry from Helmholtz to Cassirer by Francesca Biagioli 9783319811161
Booksplease Price: £80.72This book offers a reconstruction of the debate on non-Euclidean geometry in neo-Kantianism between the second half of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century. Kant... -
A Ludic Journey on Geometric Topology by Ton Marar 9783031074417
Booksplease Price: £46.85This book draws on elements from everyday life, architecture, and the arts to provide the reader with elementary notions of geometric topology. Pac Man, subway maps, and architectural blueprints are... -
A History of Abstract Algebra: From Algebraic Equations to Modern Algebra by Jeremy Gray 9783319947723
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £32.44This textbook provides an accessible account of the history of abstract algebra, tracing a range of topics in modern algebra and number theory back to their modest presence in the seventeenth and... -
Developing Research in Mathematics Education: Twenty Years of Communication, Cooperation and Collaboration in Europe Tommy Dreyfus 9781138080294
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Developing Research in Mathematics Education is the first book in the series New Perspectives on Research in Mathematics Education, to be produced in association with the prestigious European Society... -
Pursuit of Genius: Flexner, Einstein, and the Early Faculty at the Institute for Advanced Study by Steve Batterson 9781568812595
Booksplease Price: £46.79"The Institute for Advanced Study occupies a unique position among institutions of higher learning. An account of its early years is long overdue, so the appearance of the present volume, during the... -
Using Mathematics to Understand the World: How Culture Promotes Children's Mathematics by Terezinha Nunes
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83Using Mathematics to Understand the World: How Culture Promotes Children's Mathematics offers fundamental insight into how mathematics permeates our lives as a way of representing and thinking about... -
Emmy Noether's Wonderful Theorem by Dwight E. Neuenschwander 9781421422671
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £21.11"In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began... -
Teachers Talking about their Classrooms: Learning from the Professional Lexicons of Mathematics Teachers around the World Carmel Mesiti 9780367376932
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Different communities, speaking different languages, employ different naming systems to describe the events, actions, and interactions of the mathematics classroom. The International Classroom...