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Italian Mathematics Between the Two World Wars

This book describes Italian mathematics in the period between the two World Wars. We analyze its development by focusing ...

Italian Mathematics Between the Two World Wars

This book describes Italian mathematics in the period between the two World Wars. We analyze its development by focusing ...

Jacopo da Firenze’s Tractatus Algorismi and Early Italian Abbacus Culture

In the city republics of Renaissance Italy, it was a common practice among the merchant class to send sons for a two-year ...

Japan’s Arduous Rejuvenation as a Global Power

This book assesses the profound impact of Japan’s aspirations to become a great power on Japanese security, democracy and ...

John Dee: Interdisciplinary Studies in English Renaissance Thought

This volume records the diversity of scholarly approaches to John Dee which have emerged since the synthetic accounts of ...

Judges and Adjudication in Constitutional Democracies: A View from Legal Realism

offers contributions to a philosophical and realistic approach to the place of adjudication in contemporary constitutional ...

La correspondance entre Henri Poincaré et les physiciens, chimistes et ingénieurs = The correspondence between Henri Poincaré and physicists, chemists and engineers

Cosmic microwave background radiation is the residue of the great heat following the Big Bang. A tenuous sign, over 13 billion ...

La loi de la gravitation universelle Newton, Euler et Laplace : Le cheminement d’une révolution scientifique vers une science normale = The law of universal gravitation Newton, Euler and Laplace: The progress of a scientific revolution towards a normal science

An analysis of Newton's ideas dismisses this hypothesis by the simple fact that the Principia sought to demonstrate the ...

Labyrinth of Thought

Labyrinth of Thought discusses the emergence and development of set theory and the set-theoretic approach to mathematics ...

Landscape Design in Color: History, Theory, and Practice 1750 to Today / Mira Engler

Posits that though color and lighting effects appear natural, fleeting, and difficult to comprehend, the sensory palette ...

Lasers and Nuclei

Lasers and Nuclei describes the generation of high-energy-particle radiation with high-intensity lasers and its application ...

Law and Politics : A Dilemma for Contemporary Legal Theory

Politics and the political discourse occupy a central position in the modern legal theoretical discussion. The goal of this ...

Leibniz: What Kind of Rationalist?

The chapters of the book are the result of intense discussion in the course of an international conference focused on the ...

Lenses and Waves

this book offers the first account of the development of Huygens’ mathematical analysis of lenses and telescopes and its ...

Leonhard Euler

Euler was not only by far the most productive mathematician in the history of mankind, but also one of the greatest scholars ...

Lewis Fry Richardson: His Intellectual Legacy and Influence in the Social Sciences

This is book. Lewis F Richardson (1981-1953), a physicist by training, was a pioneer in meteorology and peace research and ...

Linear Differential Equations and Group Theory from Riemann to Poincaré

This book is a study of how a particular vision of the unity of mathematics, often called geometric function theory, was ...

Lise Meitner and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age

This book documenting the extraordinary life of an aspiring woman scientist whose life was filled with adversity. Surviving ...

Lived Nation as the History of Experiences and Emotions in Finland, 1800-2000

This Finland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as an empirical case in order to study the emergence, shaping and ...

Living with Disfigurement in Early Medieval Europe

This book examines social and medical responses to the disfigured face in early medieval Europe, arguing that the study of ...

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