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The Decomposition of Global Conformal Invariants (AM-182) by Spyros Alexakis 9780691153483
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £72.80This book addresses a basic question in differential geometry that was first considered by physicists Stanley Deser and Adam Schwimmer in 1993 in their study of conformal anomalies. The question... -
Loving and Hating Mathematics: Challenging the Myths of Mathematical Life by Reuben Hersh 9780691142470
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.48Mathematics is often thought of as the coldest expression of pure reason. But few subjects provoke hotter emotions--and inspire more love and hatred--than mathematics. And although math is frequently... -
The Equidistribution Theory of Holomorphic Curves. (AM-64), Volume 64 by Hung-His Wu 9780691080734
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £69.44This work is a fresh presentation of the Ahlfors-Weyl theory of holomorphic curves that takes into account some recent developments in Nevanlinna theory and several complex variables. The treatment... -
The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 7 (English): The Berlin Years: Writings, 1918-1921. (English translation of selected texts) by Albert Einstein 9780691057187
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £62.10In the spring of 1919, two British solar eclipse expeditions confirmed the correctness of general relativity theory and propelled Albert Einstein to instant celebrity. Before this major turning... -
The Formative Years of Relativity: The History and Meaning of Einstein's Princeton Lectures by Hanoch Gutfreund 9780691174631
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.70First published in 1922 and based on lectures delivered in May 1921, Albert Einstein's The Meaning of Relativity offered an overview and explanation of the then new and controversial theory of... -
The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 12 (English): The Berlin Years: Correspondence, January-December 1921 (English translation supplement) by Diana Kormos Buchwald 9780691141916
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £54.13Every document in The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein appears in the language in which it was written, and this supplementary paperback volume presents the English translations of all non-English... -
Mathematics and Art: A Cultural History by Lynn Gamwell 9780691165288
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £49.39This 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... -
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The Road to Relativity: The History and Meaning of Einstein's "The Foundation of General Relativity", Featuring the Original Manuscript of Einstein's Masterpiece by Hanoch Gutfreund 9780691162539
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.49This richly annotated facsimile edition of "The Foundation of General Relativity" introduces a new generation of readers to Albert Einstein's theory of gravitation. Written in 1915, this remarkable... -
QED and the Men Who Made It: Dyson, Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga by Silvan S. Schweber
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.00In the 1930s, physics was in a crisis. There appeared to be no way to reconcile the new theory of quantum mechanics with Einstein's theory of relativity. Several approaches had been tried and had... -
C*-Algebra Extensions and K-Homology. (AM-95), Volume 95 by Ronald G. Douglas 9780691082660
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £48.02Recent developments in diverse areas of mathematics suggest the study of a certain class of extensions of C*-algebras. Here, Ronald Douglas uses methods from homological algebra to study this... -
The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 17 (Translation Supplement): The Berlin Years: Writings and Correspondence, June 1929–November 1930 Albert Einstein 9780691246161
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.25An English-language edition of selected correspondence and papers of Albert EinsteinA translation of selected non-English texts included in Volume 17 is available in paperback. Since this... -
The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 15 (Translation Supplement): The Berlin Years: Writings & Correspondence, June 1925-May 1927 by Albert Einstein 9780691178820
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £54.93A translation of selected non-English texts included in Volume 15 is available in paperback. Since this supplementary paperback includes only select portions of Volume 15, it is not recommended for... -
Prime Suspects: The Anatomy of Integers and Permutations by Andrew Granville 9780691149158
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.40An 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... -
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The Road to Relativity: The History and Meaning of Einstein's "The Foundation of General Relativity", Featuring the Original Manuscript of Einstein's Masterpiece by Hanoch Gutfreund 9780691175812
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.70This richly annotated facsimile edition of "The Foundation of General Relativity" introduces a new generation of readers to Albert Einstein's theory of gravitation. Written in 1915, this remarkable... -
The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 16 (Translation Supplement): The Berlin Years / Writings & Correspondence / June 1927-May 1929 by Professor Diana K. Buchwald
Booksplease Price: £54.45A translation of selected non-English texts included in Volume 16 is available in paperback. Since this supplementary paperback includes only select portions of Volume 16, it is not recommended for... -
Strong Nonlinear Limit-point/limit-circle Problem, The by John R. Graef 9789813226371
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £91.56The limit-point/limit-circle problem had its beginnings more than 100 years ago with the publication of Hermann Weyl's classic paper in Mathematische Annalen in 1910 on linear differential equations... -
Unitary Representations of Reductive Lie Groups. (AM-118), Volume 118 by David A. Vogan 9780691084824
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £82.45This book is an expanded version of the Hermann Weyl Lectures given at the Institute for Advanced Study in January 1986. It outlines some of what is now known about irreducible unitary... -
Scientific Objectivity: A Transcendental Approach by Dong Luo 9781041140603
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Adopting a transcendental approach, the book addresses debates on "scientific objectivity" within the contemporary philosophy of science.The author explores the multifaceted meanings and ongoing... -
The Nonlinear Limit-Point/Limit-Circle Problem by Miroslav Bartusek 9780817635626
Booksplease Price: £46.58This self-contained monograph traces the evolution of the limit-point/limit-circle problem from its 1910 inception, in a paper by Hermann Weyl, to its modern-day extensions to the asymptotic analysis... -
Pseudo-Differential Operators: Quantization and Signals by Hans G. Feichtinger 9783540682660
Booksplease Price: £42.34Pseudo-differential operators were initiated by Kohn, Nirenberg and Hoermander in the sixties of the last century. Beside applications in the general theory of partial differential equations, they... -
Approximation, Complex Analysis, and Potential Theory by Gert Sabidussi 9781402000287
Booksplease Price: £90.86Hermann Weyl considered value distribution theory to be the greatest mathematical achievement of the first half of the 20th century. The present lectures show that this beautiful theory is still... -
Approximation, Complex Analysis, and Potential Theory by Gert Sabidussi 9781402000294
Booksplease Price: £90.56Hermann Weyl considered value distribution theory to be the greatest mathematical achievement of the first half of the 20th century. The present lectures show that this beautiful theory is still... -
Phenomenology, Logic, and the Philosophy of Mathematics by Richard L. Tieszen 9780521837828
RRP: £114.00Booksplease Price: £105.09Offering a collection of fifteen essays that deal with issues at the intersection of phenomenology, logic, and the philosophy of mathematics, this 2005 book is divided into three parts. Part I... -
Selected Papers by Saunders Mac Lane 9781493972609
Booksplease Price: £54.45Covering a period up to 1971, this selection of Saunders Mac Lane's most distinguished papers takes the reader on a journey through the most important milestones of the mathematical world in the... -
Phenomenology, Logic, and the Philosophy of Mathematics by Richard L. Tieszen 9780521119986
RRP: £47.00Booksplease Price: £45.41Offering a collection of fifteen essays that deal with issues at the intersection of phenomenology, logic, and the philosophy of mathematics, this 2005 book is divided into three parts. Part I... -
New Essays on Leibniz Reception: In Science and Philosophy of Science 1800-2000 by Ralph Kromer 9783034605038
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book is a collection of essays on the reception of Leibniz's thinking in the sciences and in the philosophy of science in the 19th and 20th centuries. Authors studied include C.F. Gauss, Georg... -
The Art of the Intelligible: An Elementary Survey of Mathematics in its Conceptual Development by J. Bell 9781402000072
Booksplease Price: £91.68A compact survey, at the elementary level, of some of the most important concepts of mathematics. Attention is paid to their technical features, historical development and broader philosophical... -
Hilbert-Courant by Constance Reid 9780387962566
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £36.18I am very pleased that my books about David Hilbert, published in 1970, and Richard Courant, published in 1976, are now being issued by Springer Verlag in a single volume. I have always felt that... -
New Essays on Leibniz Reception: In Science and Philosophy of Science 1800-2000 by Ralph Kromer 9783034807715
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book is a collection of essays on the reception of Leibniz's thinking in the sciences and in the philosophy of science in the 19th and 20th centuries. Authors studied include C.F. Gauss, Georg... -
Weyl Transforms by Man Wah Wong 9780387984148
Booksplease Price: £46.58This book is an outgrowth of courses given by me for graduate students at York University in the past ten years. The actual writing of the book in this form was carried out at York University, Peking... -
Weyl Transforms by M. W. Wong 9781475771749
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book is an outgrowth of courses given by me for graduate students at York University in the past ten years. The actual writing of the book in this form was carried out at York University, Peking... -
Representations of Compact Lie Groups by Theodor Brocker 9783642057250
Booksplease Price: £56.12This book is based on several courses given by the authors since 1966. It introduces the reader to the representation theory of compact Lie groups. We have chosen a geometrical and analytical... -
Sturm-Liouville Theory by Anton Zettl 9780821852675
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £107.45In 1836-1837 Sturm and Liouville published a series of papers on second order linear ordinary differential operators, which started the subject now known as the Sturm-Liouville problem. In 1910... -
Epistemological Writings: The Paul Hertz/Moritz Schlick centenary edition of 1921, with notes and commentary by the editors by H. von Helmholtz 9789027705822
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £90.86[1977] Hermann von Helmholtz in the History of Scientific Method In 1921, the centenary of Helmholtz' birth, Paul Hertz, a physicist, and Moritz Schlick, a philosopher, published a selection of his... -
Epistemological Writings: The Paul Hertz/Moritz Schlick centenary edition of 1921, with notes and commentary by the editors by H. von Helmholtz 9789027702906
Booksplease Price: £90.56[1977] Hermann von Helmholtz in the History of Scientific Method In 1921, the centenary of Helmholtz' birth, Paul Hertz, a physicist, and Moritz Schlick, a philosopher, published a selection of his... -
Lie Groups and Lie Algebras: Chapters 7-9 by Nicolas Bourbaki 9783540688518
RRP: £69.99Booksplease Price: £66.26This is the softcover reprint of the English translation of Bourbaki's text Groupes et Algebres de Lie, Chapters 7 to 9. It completes the previously published translations of Chapters 1 to 3... -
The Art of the Intelligible: An Elementary Survey of Mathematics in its Conceptual Development by J. L. Bell 9780792359722
Booksplease Price: £90.56A compact survey, at the elementary level, of some of the most important concepts of mathematics. Attention is paid to their technical features, historical development and broader philosophical ... -
Emmy Noether in Bryn Mawr: Proceedings of a Symposium Sponsored by the Association for Women in Mathematics in Honor of Emmy Noether's 100th Birthday by A. Borel 9781461255499
Booksplease Price: £92.16This volume contains the proceedings of a Symposium held in honor of Emmy Noether's lOOth birthday which was sponsored by the Association for Women in Mathematics, and held at Bryn Mawr College on... -
Saunders Mac Lane: A Mathematical Autobiography by Saunders Mac Lane
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £58.94Saunders Mac Lane was an extraordinary mathematician, a dedicated teacher, and a good citizen who cared deeply about the values of science and education. In his autobiography, he gives us a glimpse... -
Instability and Non-uniqueness for the 2D Euler Equations, after M. Vishik: (AMS-219) by Camillo De Lellis 9780691257532
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £49.55An essential companion to M. Vishik's groundbreaking work in fluid mechanicsThe incompressible Euler equations are a system of partial differential equations introduced by Leonhard Euler more than...