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