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978-3-7643-8350-3
Labyrinth of Thought

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

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978-1-4020-8668-7
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 ...

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978-1-4020-2698-0
Lenses and Waves

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

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978-3-7643-7539-3
Leonhard Euler

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

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978-0-8176-4773-5
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 ...

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978-3-540-29462-7
Mathematical Events of the Twentieth Century

Russian mathematics (later Soviet mathematics, and Russian mathematics once again) occupies a special place in twentieth-century ...

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978-3-540-29462-7
Mathematical Events of the Twentieth Century

Russian mathematics (later Soviet mathematics, and Russian mathematics once again) occupies a special place in twentieth-century ...

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978-0-387-28272-5
Mathematics and the Historians Craft

Mathematical practitioners, for pedagogical reasons or to contextualize the work, tend to focus on finding the antecedents ...

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978-1-84628-791-6
Mr Hopkins Men : Cambridge Reform and British Mathematics in the 19th Century

This wide-ranging book tells the story of Hopkins and the education and subsequent careers of his top "wranglers", many ...

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978-1-84628-791-6
Mr Hopkins Men: Cambridge Reform and British Mathematics in the 19th Century

The 19th century was a key period in the development of the mathematical sciences in Britain. Subjects such as rigid-body ...

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978-0-387-29555-8
Non-Euclidean Geometries

Some of the papers present new discoveries about the life and works of János Bolyai and the history of non-Euclidean geometry, ...

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978-0-387-29555-8
Non-Euclidean Geometries

Some of the papers present new discoveries about the life and works of János Bolyai and the history of non-Euclidean geometry, ...

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978-3-7643-8840-9
Patterns of Change : Linguistic Innovations in the Development of Classical Mathematics

This book offers a reconstruction of linguistic innovations in the history of mathematics; innovations which changed the ...

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978-0-387-71575-9
Philosophical Dimensions in Mathematics Education

Philosophical Dimensions in Mathematics Education brings together diverse recent developments exploring philosophy of mathematics ...

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978-3-540-71807-9
Punctured Torus Groups and 2-Bridge Knot Groups (I)

This monograph is Part 1 of a book project intended to give a full account of Jorgensen's theory of punctured torus Kleinian ...

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978-3-540-69574-5
Sharp Real-Part Theorems

This volume contains a coherent point of view on various sharp pointwise inequalities for analytic functions in a disk in ...

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978-2-287-30322-7
Sophus Lie. Une pensée audacieuse

Sophus Lie (1842-1899) is one of the greatest Norwegian figures in science. The notoriety that his work has earned him has ...

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978-0-387-48811-0
Tales of Mathematicians and Physicists

This revised and greatly expanded second edition of the Russian text Tales of Physicists and Mathematicians contains a wealth ...

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978-0-387-48946-9
The Geometry of an Art

This monograph describes how the understanding of the geometry behind perspective evolved between the years 1435 and 1800 ...

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978-0-8176-4475-8
The History of Approximation Theory

The problem of approximating a given quantity is one of the oldest challenges faced by mathematicians. Its increasing importance ...

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