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Scale the Sycamore by Senior Lecturer in Mathematics Jeremy Gray 9780692586334
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692586334Author Senior Lecturer in Mathematics Jeremy GrayFormat Paperback< -
Starting at the End by Jeremy Gray 9781836282778
Booksplease Price: £19.33It's one thing for a doctor to support in theory a terminally ill patient's right to die with dignity, quite another to be the person asked to end their brother's suffering. When Robert, a doctor,... -
Simply Riemann by Jeremy Gray 9781943657216
RRP: £8.00Booksplease Price: £6.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943657216Author Jeremy GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint -
The Hilbert Challenge by Jeremy Gray 9780198506515
Booksplease Price: £85.13David Hilbert was arguably the leading mathematician of his generation. He was among the few mathematicians who could reshape mathematics, and was able to because he brought together an impressive... -
Henri Poincare: A Scientific Biography by Jeremy Gray
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £37.43Henri Poincare (1854-1912) was not just one of the most inventive, versatile, and productive mathematicians of all time--he was also a leading physicist who almost won a Nobel Prize for physics and a... -
Plato's Ghost: The Modernist Transformation of Mathematics by Jeremy Gray
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.30Plato's Ghost is the first book to examine the development of mathematics from 1880 to 1920 as a modernist transformation similar to those in art, literature, and music. Jeremy Gray traces the growth... -
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... -
Change and Variations: A History of Differential Equations to 1900 by Jeremy Gray
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £17.19This book presents a history of differential equations, both ordinary and partial, as well as the calculus of variations, from the origins of the subjects to around 1900. Topics treated include the... -
Plato's Ghost: The Modernist Transformation of Mathematics by Jeremy Gray 9780691136103
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £56.48Plato's Ghost is the first book to examine the development of mathematics from 1880 to 1920 as a modernist transformation similar to those in art, literature, and music. Jeremy Gray traces the growth... -
The Real and the Complex: A History of Analysis in the 19th Century by Jeremy Gray 9783319237145
Booksplease Price: £31.52This book contains a history of real and complex analysis in the nineteenth century, from the work of Lagrange and Fourier to the origins of set theory and the modern foundations of analysis. It... -
Ideas of Space: Euclidean, Non-Euclidean, and Relativistic by Jeremy Gray 9780198539353
Booksplease Price: £117.40The history of the development of Euclidean, non-Euclidean, and relativistic ideas of the shape of the universe, is presented in this lively account by Jeremy Gray. The parallel postulate of... -
Linear Differential Equations and Group Theory from Riemann to Poincare by Jeremy Gray 9780817647728
Booksplease Price: £61.04This book is a study of how a particular vision of the unity of mathematics, often called geometric function theory, was created in the 19th century. The central focus is on the convergence of three... -
Worlds Out of Nothing: A Course in the History of Geometry in the 19th Century by Jeremy Gray 9780857290595
Booksplease Price: £31.82Based on the latest historical research, Worlds Out of Nothing is the first book to provide a course on the history of geometry in the 19th century. Topics covered in the first part of the book 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... -
The Best Writing on Mathematics 2012 by Mircea Pitici 9780691156552
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.75This annual anthology brings together the year's finest mathematics writing from around the world. Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in the field, The Best Writing... -
How to Read Historical Mathematics by Dr. Benjamin Wardhaugh 9780691140148
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.35Writings by early mathematicians feature language and notations that are quite different from what we're familiar with today. Sourcebooks on the history of mathematics provide some guidance, but what... -
Mathematical Knowledge by Mary Leng 9780199228249
Booksplease Price: £107.29What is the nature of mathematical knowledge? Is it anything like scientific knowledge or is it sui generis? How do we acquire it? Should we believe what mathematicians themselves tell us about it?... -
The Practice of Algebraic Curves: A Second Course in Algebraic Geometry by David Eisenbud 9781470479435
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £73.35This textbook provides readers with a working knowledge of the modern theory of complex projective algebraic curves. Also known as compact Riemann surfaces, such curves shaped the development of... -
The Mathematics of Great Amateurs by Julian Lowell Coolidge 9780198539391
Booksplease Price: £117.40This book is something of a classic of the literature of the history of mathematics. It deals not with the men and women who made mathematics their life and work but with those significant figures... -
The History of Mathematics: A Source-Based Approach (Volume 1) by June Barrow-Green 9781470466763
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £73.35The History of Mathematics: A Source-Based Approach is a comprehensive history of the development of mathematics. This, the first volume of the two-volume set, takes readers from the beginning of... -
Cauchy and the Creation of Complex Function Theory by Frank Smithies 9780521592789
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £111.04Between 1814 and 1831, the great French mathematician A. L. Cauchy created practically single-handedly a new branch of pure mathematics. Complex function theory was and remains of central importance,... -
Cauchy and the Creation of Complex Function Theory by Frank Smithies 9780521068871
RRP: £49.00Booksplease Price: £47.18Between 1814 and 1831, the great French mathematician A. L. Cauchy created practically single-handedly a new branch of pure mathematics. Complex function theory was and remains of central importance,... -
The Best Writing on Mathematics 2017 by Mircea Pitici 9780691178639
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.05The year's finest mathematics writing from around the world This annual anthology brings together the year's finest mathematics writing from around the world. Featuring promising new voices... -
The History of Mathematics: A Source-Based Approach, Volume 2 by June Barrow-Green 9781470472993
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £74.15The History of Mathematics: A Source-Based Approach is a comprehensive history of the development of mathematics. This, the second volume of a two-volume set, takes the reader from the invention of... -
Goesta Mittag-Leffler: A Man of Conviction by Tiina Nunnally 9783662501764
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £34.27Goesta Mittag-Leffler (1846-1927) played a significant role as both a scientist and entrepreneur. Regarded as the father of Swedish mathematics, his influence extended far beyond his chosen field... -
James Joseph Sylvester: Jewish Mathematician in a Victorian World by Karen Hunger Parshall 9780801882913
Booksplease Price: £72.88Here, in this first biographical study of James Joseph Sylvester, Karen Hunger Parshall makes a signal contribution to the history of mathematics, Victorian history, and the history of science. A... -
The History of Mathematical Proof in Ancient Traditions by Karine Chemla 9781107527539
Booksplease Price: £50.53This radical, profoundly scholarly book explores the purposes and nature of proof in a range of historical settings. It overturns the view that the first mathematical proofs were in Greek geometry... -
Arthur Cayley: Mathematician Laureate of the Victorian Age by Tony Crilly 9780801880117
Booksplease Price: £74.93Arthur Cayley (1821-1895) was one of the most prolific and important mathematicians of the Victorian era. His influence still pervades modern mathematics, in group theory (Cayley's theorem), matrix... -
The Best Writing on Mathematics 2013 by Mircea Pitici 9780691160412
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.69This annual anthology brings together the year's finest mathematics writing from around the world. Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in the field, The Best Writing... -
Mathematics at Berkeley: A History by Calvin C. Moore
Booksplease Price: £73.99In this fascinating history of the mathematics department at the University of California, Berkeley, Moore describes how this institution evolved from a single facutly member at a... -
Axiomatics: Mathematical Thought and High Modernism by Alma Steingart
Booksplease Price: £28.55The first history of postwar mathematics, offering a new interpretation of the rise of abstraction and axiomatics in the twentieth century. Why did abstraction dominate American art, social science,... -
Axiomatics: Mathematical Thought and High Modernism by Alma Steingart 9780226824185
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £96.05The first history of postwar mathematics, offering a new interpretation of the rise of abstraction and axiomatics in the twentieth century. Why did abstraction dominate American art, social science,... -
Mind and Nature: Selected Writings on Philosophy, Mathematics, and Physics by Hermann Weyl 9780691135458
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £44.25Hermann Weyl (1885-1955) was one of the twentieth century's most important mathematicians, as well as a seminal figure in the development of quantum physics and general relativity. He was also an... -
Cogwheels of the Mind: The Story of Venn Diagrams by A. W. F. Edwards 9780801874345
Booksplease Price: £32.42Used 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... -
Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History by Eleanor Robson 9780691091822
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £62.06This monumental book traces the origins and development of mathematics in the ancient Middle East, from its earliest beginnings in the fourth millennium BCE to the end of indigenous intellectual... -
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics by Timothy Gowers 9780691118802
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £85.70This is a one-of-a-kind reference for anyone with a serious interest in mathematics. Edited by Timothy Gowers, a recipient of the Fields Medal, it presents nearly two hundred entries, written...