Author: Ivor Grattan-Guinness
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393320305
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
"For Ivor Grattan-Guinness . . . the story of how numbers were invented and harnessed is a passionate, physical saga."--"The New Yorker." The author charts the growth of mathematics through the centuries and describes the evolution of arithmetic and geometry, trigonometry, and other disciplines.
The Rainbow of Mathematics
Author: Ivor Grattan-Guinness
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393320305
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
"For Ivor Grattan-Guinness . . . the story of how numbers were invented and harnessed is a passionate, physical saga."--"The New Yorker." The author charts the growth of mathematics through the centuries and describes the evolution of arithmetic and geometry, trigonometry, and other disciplines.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393320305
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
"For Ivor Grattan-Guinness . . . the story of how numbers were invented and harnessed is a passionate, physical saga."--"The New Yorker." The author charts the growth of mathematics through the centuries and describes the evolution of arithmetic and geometry, trigonometry, and other disciplines.
History of the Mathematical Sciences
Author: Ivor Grattan-Guiness
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9386279169
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Papers presented at the International Conference on History of Mathematical Sciences, held at New Delhi during 20-23 December 2001.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9386279169
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Papers presented at the International Conference on History of Mathematical Sciences, held at New Delhi during 20-23 December 2001.
The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 5, The Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Author: David C. Lindberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521571999
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
A new and comprehensive examination of the history of the modern physical and mathematical sciences.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521571999
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
A new and comprehensive examination of the history of the modern physical and mathematical sciences.
How Economics Became a Mathematical Science
Author: E. Roy Weintraub
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822328711
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
DIVDiscusses the history of 20th century economics, and how it has become dominated by mathematical approaches./div
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822328711
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
DIVDiscusses the history of 20th century economics, and how it has become dominated by mathematical approaches./div
Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences
Author: I. Grattan-Guinness
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801873966
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
The first book of a two-volume encyclopaedia which makes the vast and varied history of mathematics available in a reasonably compact format. The book offers in-depth accounts of the principal areas of activity up to the 1930s and touches on related topics, including ethnomathematics.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801873966
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
The first book of a two-volume encyclopaedia which makes the vast and varied history of mathematics available in a reasonably compact format. The book offers in-depth accounts of the principal areas of activity up to the 1930s and touches on related topics, including ethnomathematics.
Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences
Author: Ivor Grattan-Guiness
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134888392
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 813
Book Description
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134888392
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 813
Book Description
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 7, The Modern Social Sciences
Author: David C. Lindberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521594424
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
An account of the history of the social sciences since the late eighteenth century.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521594424
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
An account of the history of the social sciences since the late eighteenth century.
A Master of Science History
Author: Jed Z. Buchwald
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400726279
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
New essays in science history ranging across the entire field and related in most instance to the works of Charles Gillispie, one of the field's founders.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400726279
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
New essays in science history ranging across the entire field and related in most instance to the works of Charles Gillispie, one of the field's founders.
Using the Mathematics Literature
Author: Kristine K. Fowler
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9780824750350
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
This reference serves as a reader-friendly guide to every basic tool and skill required in the mathematical library and helps mathematicians find resources in any format in the mathematics literature. It lists a wide range of standard texts, journals, review articles, newsgroups, and Internet and database tools for every major subfield in mathematics and details methods of access to primary literature sources of new research, applications, results, and techniques. Using the Mathematics Literature is the most comprehensive and up-to-date resource on mathematics literature in both print and electronic formats, presenting time-saving strategies for retrieval of the latest information.
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9780824750350
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
This reference serves as a reader-friendly guide to every basic tool and skill required in the mathematical library and helps mathematicians find resources in any format in the mathematics literature. It lists a wide range of standard texts, journals, review articles, newsgroups, and Internet and database tools for every major subfield in mathematics and details methods of access to primary literature sources of new research, applications, results, and techniques. Using the Mathematics Literature is the most comprehensive and up-to-date resource on mathematics literature in both print and electronic formats, presenting time-saving strategies for retrieval of the latest information.
From the Calculus to Set Theory 1630-1910
Author: I. Grattan-Guinness
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691219664
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
From the Calculus to Set Theory traces the development of the calculus from the early seventeenth century through its expansion into mathematical analysis to the developments in set theory and the foundations of mathematics in the early twentieth century. It chronicles the work of mathematicians from Descartes and Newton to Russell and Hilbert and many, many others while emphasizing foundational questions and underlining the continuity of developments in higher mathematics. The other contributors to this volume are H. J. M. Bos, R. Bunn, J. W. Dauben, T. W. Hawkins, and K. Møller-Pedersen.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691219664
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
From the Calculus to Set Theory traces the development of the calculus from the early seventeenth century through its expansion into mathematical analysis to the developments in set theory and the foundations of mathematics in the early twentieth century. It chronicles the work of mathematicians from Descartes and Newton to Russell and Hilbert and many, many others while emphasizing foundational questions and underlining the continuity of developments in higher mathematics. The other contributors to this volume are H. J. M. Bos, R. Bunn, J. W. Dauben, T. W. Hawkins, and K. Møller-Pedersen.