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| Bestselling author and physicist Hawking explores the "masterpieces" of mathematics, 25 landmarks spanning 2,500 years and representing the... Problems that beset Archimedes, Newton, Euler, Cauchy, Gauss, etc. Features squaring the circle, pi, similar problems. No advanced math is...
Part of the Longman Library of Primary Sources in Philosophy," this edition ofFrege's" Foundations of Arithmetic" is framed by a pedagogical... The bible of thousands of teachers who have sought creative ways to use computers in schools, this book tells the story of the invention of...
Complete works of ancient geometer feature such topics as the famous problems of the ratio of the areas of a cylinder and an inscribed... In this work, Lagrange developed the principle from which the whole of solid and fluid mechanics can be derived.
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... The history of pi, says the author, though a small part of the history of mathematics, is nevertheless a mirror of the history of man. Petr...
Written for beginners and scholars, for students and teachers, for philosophers and engineers, What is Mathematics? is a sparkling... Important study focuses on the revival and assimilation of ancient Greek mathematics in the 13th-16th centuries, via Arabic science, and the...
The interest earned on a bank account, the arrangement of seeds in a sunflower, and the shape of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis are all... In this work, Lagrange developed the principle from which the whole of solid and fluid mechanics can be derived.
Band 5 umfa t die Themenbereiche Astronomie, Optik und Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie. Er enth lt Hausdorffs Dissertation ber die Refraktion des... These documents do nothing less than bear witness to one of the most dramatic changes in the foundations of science. The book has three...
Intuitionism is one of the main foundations for mathematics proposed in the twentieth century and its views on logic have also notably... Gregory Chaitin, one of the world's foremost mathematicians, leads us on a spellbinding journey, illuminating the process by which he...
Covering both the history of mathematics and of philosophy, Descartes's Mathematical Thought reconstructs the intellectual career of... The realism/anti-realism debate is one of the traditional central themes in the philosophy of mathematics. The controversies about the...
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