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| € 8.39 € 7.13 A distinguished philosopher surveys the mathematical views and influence of Plato, Aristotle, Leibniz, and Kant. He also examines the... € 23.78
€ 23.92 € 20.33 ""Euler's Gem" is a thoroughly satisfying meditation on one of mathematics' loveliest formulas. The author begins with Euler's act of seeing... € 146.76 Intuitionism is one of the main foundations for mathematics proposed in the twentieth century and its views on logic have also notably...
€ 9.98 € 8.48 A concise and useful handbook on the Golden Section--also known as the Golden Ratio and Golden Mean. The Golden Section is a line segment... € 29.47 Philosophers, social scientists, and laymen have used two perspectives in analying social action. One sees mans action as the result of...
€ 24.40 € 20.74 In this delightful layperson's introduction to one of math's most interesting phenomena, the authors review pi's history from pre-biblical... € 37.36 A thorough and standard work in the field. Isaac Todhunter (1820-1884) gave a close and carefully reasoned account of the difficulties...
€ 13.46 Since 1859, when the shy German mathematician Bernhard Riemann wrote an eight-page article giving a possible answer to a problem that had... € 15.00 € 12.75 Classic survey chronicles the development of the Japanese mathematics: use of the abacus; application of counting rods to algebra; Seki...
€ 237.81 Covering both the history of mathematics and of philosophy, Descartes's Mathematical Thought reconstructs the intellectual career of... € 25.17 € 21.39 This concise but thorough history encompasses the enduring contributions of the ancient Greek mathematicians whose works form the basis of...
€ 13.24 € 11.25 The first book for the layperson on a mathematical relationship that has obsessed mathematicians, philosophers, scientists, and artists... € 62.56 Kit Fine develops a Fregean theory of abstraction, and suggests that it may yield a new philosophical foundation for mathematics, one that...
€ 12.62 € 10.73 Even the numerically challenged will be entranced by this clear and clever chronicle revealing the role of geometry in scientific... € 42.59 During the first few decades of the twentieth century, philosophers and mathematicians mounted a sustained effort to clarify the nature of...
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