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Book Thirty Years of Psychical Research

Download or read book Thirty Years of Psychical Research written by Charles Richet and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Treatise on the Decorative Part of Civil Architecture

Download or read book A Treatise on the Decorative Part of Civil Architecture written by Sir William Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Giuseppe Peano between Mathematics and Logic

Download or read book Giuseppe Peano between Mathematics and Logic written by Fulvia Skof and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-04-30 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the papers developing out the presentations given at the International Conference organized by the Torino Academy of Sciences and the Department of Mathematics Giuseppe Peano of the Torino University to celebrate the 150th anniversary of G. Peano's birth - one of the greatest figures in modern mathematics and logic and the most important mathematical logician in Italy - a century after the publication of Formulario Mathematico, a great attempt to systematise Mathematics in symbolic form.

Book The Abel Prize

    Book Details:
  • Author : Helge Holden
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2009-12-01
  • ISBN : 3642013732
  • Pages : 325 pages

Download or read book The Abel Prize written by Helge Holden and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents the winners of the first five Abel Prizes in mathematics: 2003 Jean-Pierre Serre; 2004 Sir Michael Atiyah and Isadore Singer; 2005 Peter D. Lax; 2006 Lennart Carleson; and 2007 S.R. Srinivasa Varadhan. Each laureate provides an autobiography or an interview, a curriculum vitae, and a complete bibliography. This is complemented by a scholarly description of their work written by leading experts in the field and by a brief history of the Abel Prize. Interviews with the laureates can be found at http://extras.springer.com .

Book Geminos s Introduction to the Phenomena

Download or read book Geminos s Introduction to the Phenomena written by James Evans and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first complete English translation of Geminos's Introduction to the Phenomena--one of the most important and interesting astronomical works of its type to have survived from Greek antiquity. Gracefully and charmingly written, Geminos's first-century BC textbook for beginning students of astronomy can now be read straight through with understanding and enjoyment by a wider audience than ever before. James Evans and Lennart Berggren's accurate and readable translation is accompanied by a thorough introduction and commentary that set Geminos's work in its historical, scientific, and philosophical context. This book is generously illustrated with diagrams from medieval manuscripts of Geminos's text, as well as drawings and photographs of ancient astronomical instruments. It will be of great interest to students of the history of science, to classicists, and to professional and amateur astronomers who seek to learn more about the origins of their science. Geminos provides a clear view of Greek astronomy in the period between Hipparchos and Ptolemy, treating such subjects as the zodiac, the constellations, the theory of the celestial sphere, lunar cycles, and eclipses. Most significantly, Geminos gives us the earliest detailed discussion of Babylonian astronomy by a Greek writer, thus offering valuable insight into the cross-cultural transmission of astronomical knowledge in antiquity.

Book A Shared Legacy

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  • Author : Emilia Calvo
  • Publisher : Edicions Universitat Barcelona
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 8447532852
  • Pages : 363 pages

Download or read book A Shared Legacy written by Emilia Calvo and published by Edicions Universitat Barcelona. This book was released on 2008 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the occasion of the 75th +1 anniversary of the publication of Prof. J. M. Millàs Vallicrosa’s seminal work Assaig d’història de les idees físiques i matemàtiques a la Catalunya medieval by the Institut d'Estudis Catalans, the Commission on the History of Science and Technology in Islamic Societies (International Union on History and Philosophy of Science), the Grup Millàs Vallicrosa d’Història de la Ciència Àrab (Universitat de Barcelona) and the Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica (Institut d’Estudis Catalans) organized a conference entitled “A Shared Legacy: Islamic Science East and West”. At this conference, the Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative, a new joint project for the study of manuscripts, was presented. .Although the papers published in this volume deal with a mixture of subjects and disciplines - astronomical instruments, planetary models, geometry, medicine, miqat, technology and cartography - they all have the transmission of knowledge between the two shores of the Mediterranean as a common underlying thread...Amb motiu del 75è + 1 aniversari de la publicació del llibre Assaig d’història de les idees físiques i matemàtiques a la Catalunya medieval (IEC), la Commission on the History of Science and Technology in Islamic Societies (CHSTIS/IUPHS), el Grup Millàs Vallicrosa d’Història de la Ciència Àrab de la Universitat de Barcelona (UB) i la Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica (SCHCT) -filial de l’Institut d’Estudis Catalans- organitzaren el congrés A Shared Legacy. Islamic Science East and West (Un llegat compartit: ciència islàmica a orient i occident). .Am motiu d’aquesta trobada s’han recopilat els articles que conté aquest volum tracten de temes variats –instruments astronòmics, models planetaris, geometria, medicina, tecnologia, cartografia, etc.- que tenen com a nexe en comú la transmissió del coneixement entre les dues ribes de la Mediterrània.

Book Dialogues of Love

    Book Details:
  • Author : Leone Ebreo
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2009-05-09
  • ISBN : 1442693193
  • Pages : 730 pages

Download or read book Dialogues of Love written by Leone Ebreo and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-05-09 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in Rome in 1535, Leone Ebreo's Dialogues of Love is one of the most important texts of the European Renaissance. Well known in the Italian academies of the sixteenth century, its popularity quickly spread throughout Europe, with numerous reprintings and translations into French, Latin Spanish, and Hebrew. It attracted a diverse audience that included noblemen, courtesans, artists, poets, intellectuals, and philosophers. More than just a bestseller, the work exerted a deep influence over the centuries on figures as diverse as Giordano Bruno, John Donne, Miguelde Cervantes, and Baruch Spinoza. Leone's Dialogues consists of three conversations - 'On Love and Desire,' 'On the Universality of Love,' and 'Onthe Origin of Love' - that take place over a period of three subsequent days.They are organized in a dialogic format, much like a theatrical representation, of a conversation between a man, Philo, who plays the role of the lover andteacher, and a woman, Sophia, the beloved and pupil. The discussion covers a wide range of topics that have as their common denominator the idea of Love. Through the dialogue, the author explores many different points of view and complex philosophical ideas. Grounded in a distinctly Jewish tradition, and drawing on Neoplatonic philosophical structures and Arabic sources, the work offers a useful compendium of classical and contemporary thought, yet was not incompatible with Christian doctrine. Despite the unfinished state and somewhat controversial, enigmatic nature of Ebreo's famous text, it remains one of the most significant and influential works in the history of Western thought. This new, expertly translated and annotated English edition takes into account the latest scholarship and provides aninvaluable resource for today's readers.

Book Discrete Mathematics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Norman Biggs
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2002-12-19
  • ISBN : 9780198507178
  • Pages : 444 pages

Download or read book Discrete Mathematics written by Norman Biggs and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-12-19 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discrete mathematics is a compulsory subject for undergraduate computer scientists. This new edition includes new chapters on statements and proof, logical framework, natural numbers and the integers and updated exercises from the previous edition.

Book Historical Modules for the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics

Download or read book Historical Modules for the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics written by Victor J. Katz and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History in Mathematics Education

Download or read book History in Mathematics Education written by John Fauvel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-04-11 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking book investigates how the learning and teaching of mathematics can be improved through integrating the history of mathematics into all aspects of mathematics education: lessons, homework, texts, lectures, projects, assessment, and curricula. It draws upon evidence from the experience of teachers as well as national curricula, textbooks, teacher education practices, and research perspectives across the world. It includes a 300-item annotated bibliography of recent work in the field in eight languages.

Book Quantum Mechanics at the Crossroads

Download or read book Quantum Mechanics at the Crossroads written by James Evans and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together leading quantum physicists to expound on the meaning and future directions of quantum mechanics. It offers new insights from different vantage points to tackle essential questions in quantum mechanics and its interpretation. All the authors have written for a broad readership, and the resulting volume will appeal to everyone wishing to keep abreast of new developments in quantum mechanics, as well as its history and philosophy.

Book A Quantum Groups Primer

Download or read book A Quantum Groups Primer written by Shahn Majid and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-04 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self-contained introduction to quantum groups as algebraic objects, suitable as a textbook for graduate courses.

Book The Facts on File Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases

Download or read book The Facts on File Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases written by Martin H. Manser and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides pronunciations, origins, and meanings for words and phrases from foreign sources, ranging from everyday terms to words in the news and the specialized languages of cooking, music, the arts, and the law.

Book Revolutions in Mathematics

Download or read book Revolutions in Mathematics written by Donald Gillies and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1995 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book provide the first comprehensive treatment of the concept of revolution in mathematics. In 1962 an exciting discussion of revolutions in the natural sciences was prompted by the publication of Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. A fascinating but little knownoffshoot of this debate was begun in the USA in the mid-1970s: can the concept of revolutions be applied to mathematics as well as science? Michael Crowe declared that revolutions never occur in mathematics, while Joseph Dauben argued that there have been mathematical revolutions and gave someexamples.The original papers of Crowe, Dauben, and Mehrtens are reprinted in this book, together with additional chapters giving their current views. To this are added new contributions from nine further experts in the history of mathematics who each discuss an important episode and consider whether it was arevolution.This book is an excellent reference work and an ideal course text for both graduate and undergraduate courses in the history and philosophy of science and mathematics.

Book The Alchemy of Glass

Download or read book The Alchemy of Glass written by Marco Beretta and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The present study illustrates how glass played an important role in ancient technical and alchemical literature, and how the chemical operations devised to improve glass making inspired by alchemists to better define the theoretical boundaries of their discipline and, more specifically, the concept of transmutation."--Book jacket.