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Labyrinth of Thought

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

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 ...

Lenses and Waves

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

Leonhard Euler

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

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 ...

Mathematical Events of the Twentieth Century

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

Mathematical Events of the Twentieth Century

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

Mathematics and the Historians Craft

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

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

Philosophical Dimensions in Mathematics Education

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

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 ...

Sharp Real-Part Theorems

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

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 ...

Tales of Mathematicians and Physicists

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

The Geometry of an Art

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

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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