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978-3-7643-7512-6
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 ...

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978-3-7643-7512-6
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 ...

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978-3-7643-8391-6
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 ...

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978-981-13-6190-6
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 ...

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978-1-4020-4246-1
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 ...

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978-3-030-58186-2
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 ...

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978-3-7643-8303-9
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 ...

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978-2-287-72083-3
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 ...

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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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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 ...

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978-3-540-30272-8
Lasers and Nuclei

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

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978-3-540-73926-5
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 ...

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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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978-3-030-31589-4
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 ...

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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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978-0-8176-4563-2
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 ...

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978-3-030-69882-9
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 ...

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978-1-137-54439-1
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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