Author: Maor, Eli Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: 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 intimately connected with the mysterious number e. In this inform...
Author: Yuksel, Edip Publisher: Brainbow Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Code 19 provides a powerful evidence for God's existence, as expected, envisioned or demanded by some philosophers and scientists, such as Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton, Gottfried Leibniz, David Hume,...
Author: Nahin, Paul J. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Today complex numbers have such widespread practical use--from electrical engineering to aeronautics--that few people would expect the story behind their derivation to be filled with adventure and eni...
Author: Nahin, Paul J. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Today complex numbers have such widespread practical use--from electrical engineering to aeronautics--that few people would expect the story behind their derivation to be filled with adventure and eni...
Author: N/A Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Circles Disturbed brings together important thinkers in mathematics, history, and philosophy to explore the relationship between mathematics and narrative. The book's title recalls the last words of t...
Author: Nahin, Paul J. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: I used to think math was no fun'Cause I couldn't see how it was doneNow Euler's my heroFor I now see why zeroEquals e[pi] i+1--Paul Nahin, electrical engineer In the mid-eighteenth century, Swiss-born...
Author: Ash, Avner / Gross, Robert Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Elliptic Tales describes the latest developments in number theory by looking at one of the most exciting unsolved problems in contemporary mathematics--the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture. The Cl...
Author: Richeson, David S. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Leonhard Euler's polyhedron formula describes the structure of many objects--from soccer balls and gemstones to Buckminster Fuller's buildings and giant all-carbon molecules. Yet Euler's formula is so...
Author: Engelsman, S.B. Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book provides a detailed description of the main episodes in the emergence of partial differentiation during the period 1690-1740. It argues that the development of this concept - to a considerab...
Author: Havil, Julian Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Among the myriad of constants that appear in mathematics, p, e, and i are the most familiar. Following closely behind is g, or gamma, a constant that arises in many mathematical areas yet maintains a ...
Author: Pfeffermann,Danny / Rao,C.R. Publisher: North Holland Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This new handbook contains the most comprehensive account of sample surveys theory and practice to date. It is a second volume on sample surveys, with the goal of updating and extending the sampling v...
Description: This new handbook contains the most comprehensive account of sample surveys theory and practice to date. It is a second volume on sample surveys, with the goal of updating and extending the sampling v...
Author: Kaplan, Ellen / Kaplan, Robert Publisher: Bloomsbury Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: A squared plus b squared equals c squared. It sounds simple, doesn't it? Yet this familiar expression is a gateway into the riotous garden of mathematics, and sends us on a journey of exploration in t...
Author: James, I. M. Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Topology, for many years, has been one of the most exciting and influential fields of research in modern mathematics. Although its origins may be traced back several hundred years, it was Poincar&eac...
Author: Byers, William Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: To many outsiders, mathematicians appear to think like computers, grimly grinding away with a strict formal logic and moving methodically--even algorithmically--from one black-and-white deduction to a...
Author: Wardhaugh, Benjamin Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Writings by early mathematicians feature language and notations that are quite different from what we're familiar with today. Sourcebooks on the history of mathematics provide some guidance, but what ...
Author: Kartezi, F. Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The epoch-making work of János Bolyai is presented here, together with a supplement outlining Hungarian political and science history to help the reader to get acquainted with the miserable fat...
Author: E. Bradley, Robert Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The year 2007 marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of one of the Enlightenment's most important mathematicians and scientists, Leonhard Euler. This volume is a collection of 24 essays by some of t...
Author: Prawitz, Dag Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This volume is the product of the Proceedings of the 9th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and contains the text of most of the invited lectures. Divided into 15 s...
Author: Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The emigration of mathematicians from Europe during the Nazi era signaled an irrevocable and important historical shift for the international mathematics world. Mathematicians Fleeing from Nazi German...
Author: Plofker, Kim Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Based on extensive research in Sanskrit sources, Mathematics in India chronicles the development of mathematical techniques and texts in South Asia from antiquity to the early modern period. Kim Plofk...
Author: Weyl, Hermann Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Hermann Weyl (1885-1955) was one of the twentieth century's most important mathematicians, as well as a seminal figure in the development of quantum physics and general relativity. He was also an eloq...
Author: Szpiro, George G. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Since the very birth of democracy in ancient Greece, the simple act of voting has given rise to mathematical paradoxes that have puzzled some of the greatest philosophers, statesmen, and mathematician...
Author: Szpiro, George G. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Since the very birth of democracy in ancient Greece, the simple act of voting has given rise to mathematical paradoxes that have puzzled some of the greatest philosophers, statesmen, and mathematician...
Author: Tieszen,Richard Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Offering a collection of fifteen essays that deal with issues at the intersection of phenomenology, logic, and the philosophy of mathematics, this book is divided into three parts. Part I, Reason, Sci...
Author: Sangalli, Arturo Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The celebrated mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras left no writings. But what if he had and the manuscript was never found? Where would it be located? And what information would it reveal? These ...
Author: N/A Publisher: North Holland Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Set theory is an autonomous and sophisticated field of mathematics that is extremely successful at analyzing mathematical propositions and gauging their consistency strength. It is as a field of mathe...
Author: Joseph, George Gheverghese Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: From the Ishango Bone of central Africa and the Inca quipu of South America to the dawn of modern mathematics, The Crest of the Peacock makes it clear that human beings everywhere have been capable of...
Author: Watkins, John J. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Topics in Commutative Ring Theory is a textbook for advanced undergraduate students as well as graduate students and mathematicians seeking an accessible introduction to this fascinating area of abstr...
Author: Mazur, Joseph Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Why do so many gamblers risk it all when they know the odds of winning are against them? Why do they believe dice are "hot" in a winning streak? Why do we expect heads on a coin toss after several fli...
Author: Nahin, Paul J. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What is the best way to photograph a speeding bullet? Why does light move through glass in the least amount of time possible? How can lost hikers find their way out of a forest? What will rainbows loo...
Author: Reed, Stephen K. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Integrates work from cognitive psychology, mathematics education, and instructional technologies, to inform readers of what is known about how people solve (or fail to solve) word problems, and how th...
Author: N/A Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Despite what we may sometimes imagine, popular mathematics writing didn't begin with Martin Gardner. In fact, it has a rich tradition stretching back hundreds of years. This entertaining and enlighten...
Author: N/A Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Despite what we may sometimes imagine, popular mathematics writing didn't begin with Martin Gardner. In fact, it has a rich tradition stretching back hundreds of years. This entertaining and enlighten...
Author: Nahin, Paul J. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Today complex numbers have such widespread practical use--from electrical engineering to aeronautics--that few people would expect the story behind their derivation to be filled with adventure and eni...
Author: N/A Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Circles Disturbed brings together important thinkers in mathematics, history, and philosophy to explore the relationship between mathematics and narrative. The book's title recalls the last words of t...
Author: N/A Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Provides a panorama of forward looking perspectives on the learning of mathematics and epistemology from some of the leading exponents of the field.
Author: Nahin, Paul J. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: I used to think math was no fun'Cause I couldn't see how it was doneNow Euler's my heroFor I now see why zeroEquals e[pi] i+1--Paul Nahin, electrical engineer In the mid-eighteenth century, Swiss-born...
Author: Ash, Avner / Gross, Robert Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Elliptic Tales describes the latest developments in number theory by looking at one of the most exciting unsolved problems in contemporary mathematics--the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture. The Cl...
Author: Richeson, David S. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Leonhard Euler's polyhedron formula describes the structure of many objects--from soccer balls and gemstones to Buckminster Fuller's buildings and giant all-carbon molecules. Yet Euler's formula is so...
Author: Byers, William Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: To many outsiders, mathematicians appear to think like computers, grimly grinding away with a strict formal logic and moving methodically--even algorithmically--from one black-and-white deduction to a...
Author: Grattan-Guinness, Ivor Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book contains around 80 articles on major writings in mathematics published between 1640 and 1940. All aspects of mathematics are covered: pure and applied, probability and statistics, foundation...
Author: Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The emigration of mathematicians from Europe during the Nazi era signaled an irrevocable and important historical shift for the international mathematics world. Mathematicians Fleeing from Nazi German...
Author: Plofker, Kim Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Based on extensive research in Sanskrit sources, Mathematics in India chronicles the development of mathematical techniques and texts in South Asia from antiquity to the early modern period. Kim Plofk...
Author: Weyl, Hermann Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Hermann Weyl (1885-1955) was one of the twentieth century's most important mathematicians, as well as a seminal figure in the development of quantum physics and general relativity. He was also an eloq...
Author: Sangalli, Arturo Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The celebrated mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras left no writings. But what if he had and the manuscript was never found? Where would it be located? And what information would it reveal? These ...
Author: Joseph, George Gheverghese Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: From the Ishango Bone of central Africa and the Inca quipu of South America to the dawn of modern mathematics, The Crest of the Peacock makes it clear that human beings everywhere have been capable of...
Author: Grattan-Guinness, I. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: While many books have been written about Bertrand Russell's philosophy and some on his logic, I. Grattan-Guinness has written the first comprehensive history of the mathematical background, content, a...
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