An Invitation to Abstract Mathematics
this book begins with a playful exploration of the building blocks of mathematics, such as definitions, axioms, and proofs. ...
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De sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period The Authors of the Commentaries
This book explores commentaries on an influential text of pre-Copernican astronomy in Europe. It features essays that take ...
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Eléments dhistoire des mathématiques = Elements of the history of mathematics
Brings together the historical notes published in the various books of mathematics elements by the author. They therefore ...
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Fibonacci’s De Practica Geometrie = Fibonacci’s Practice Geometry
Practical Geometry is the name of the craft for medieval landmeasurers, otherwise known as surveyors in modern times. Fibonacci ...
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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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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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Paul Lorenzen -- Mathematician and Logician
This book examines the many contributions of Paul Lorenzen, an outstanding philosopher from the latter half of the 20th ...
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Ruggiero Boscovich’s Theory of Natural Philosophy
Drawing on published works, correspondence and manuscripts, this book offers the most comprehensive reconstruction of Boscovich’s ...
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The Legacy of Felix Klein
This book provides an overview of Felix Klein’s ideas, highlighting developments in university teaching and school mathematics ...
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Vite matematiche : Protagonisti del’ 900 da Hilbert a Wiles = Mathematical Lives: Twentieth-century protagonists from Hilbert to Wiles
Presenting famous mathematicians alongside others less known to the general public - from Hilbert to Gödel, from Turing ...
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matematica e cultura 2008 = mathematics and culture 2008
In this new book, the tenth of the series that began in Venice with the meetings "Mathematics and culture" that many have ...
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