Labyrinth of Thought discusses the emergence and development of set theory and the set-theoretic approach to mathematics ...
Continue readingThe chapters of the book are the result of intense discussion in the course of an international conference focused on the ...
Continue readingthis book offers the first account of the development of Huygens’ mathematical analysis of lenses and telescopes and its ...
Continue readingEuler was not only by far the most productive mathematician in the history of mankind, but also one of the greatest scholars ...
Continue readingThis book is a study of how a particular vision of the unity of mathematics, often called geometric function theory, was ...
Continue readingRussian mathematics (later Soviet mathematics, and Russian mathematics once again) occupies a special place in twentieth-century ...
Continue readingRussian mathematics (later Soviet mathematics, and Russian mathematics once again) occupies a special place in twentieth-century ...
Continue readingMathematical practitioners, for pedagogical reasons or to contextualize the work, tend to focus on finding the antecedents ...
Continue readingThis wide-ranging book tells the story of Hopkins and the education and subsequent careers of his top "wranglers", many ...
Continue readingThe 19th century was a key period in the development of the mathematical sciences in Britain. Subjects such as rigid-body ...
Continue readingSome of the papers present new discoveries about the life and works of János Bolyai and the history of non-Euclidean geometry, ...
Continue readingSome of the papers present new discoveries about the life and works of János Bolyai and the history of non-Euclidean geometry, ...
Continue readingThis book offers a reconstruction of linguistic innovations in the history of mathematics; innovations which changed the ...
Continue readingPhilosophical Dimensions in Mathematics Education brings together diverse recent developments exploring philosophy of mathematics ...
Continue readingThis monograph is Part 1 of a book project intended to give a full account of Jorgensen's theory of punctured torus Kleinian ...
Continue readingThis volume contains a coherent point of view on various sharp pointwise inequalities for analytic functions in a disk in ...
Continue readingSophus Lie (1842-1899) is one of the greatest Norwegian figures in science. The notoriety that his work has earned him has ...
Continue readingThis revised and greatly expanded second edition of the Russian text Tales of Physicists and Mathematicians contains a wealth ...
Continue readingThis monograph describes how the understanding of the geometry behind perspective evolved between the years 1435 and 1800 ...
Continue readingThe problem of approximating a given quantity is one of the oldest challenges faced by mathematicians. Its increasing importance ...
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