Download or read book Handbook of the Exhibition of Napier Relics and of Books Instruments and Devices for Facilitating Calculation written by Ellice Martin Horsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook of the Exhibition of Napier Relics and of Books Instruments and Devices for Facilitating Calculation written by E. M. Horsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook of the Exhibition of Napier Relics and of Books Instruments and Devices for Facilitating Calculation written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook of the exhibition of Napier relics and of books instruments and devices for facilitating calculation ed written by Edinburgh.. Napier Tercentenary Celebration. 1914 and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Napier Tercentenary Celebration written by Ellice Martin Horsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings written by Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life and Works of John Napier written by Brian Rice and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 1009 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, all five of John Napier’s works have been brought together in English in a single volume, making them more accessible than ever before. His four mathematical works were originally published in Latin: two in his lifetime (1550–1617), one shortly after he died, and one over 200 years later. The authors have prepared three introductory chapters, one covering Napier himself, one his mathematical works, and one his religious work. The former has been prepared by one of Napier’s descendants and contains many new findings about Napier’s life to provide the most complete biography of this enigmatic character, whose reputation has previously been overshadowed by rumour and speculation. The latter has been written by an academic who was awarded a PhD for his thesis on Napier at the University of Edinburgh, and it provides the most lucid and coherent coverage available of this abstruse and little understood work. The chapter on Napier’s mathematical texts has been authored by an experienced and respected academic, whose recent works have specialised in the history of mathematics and whose Journey through Mathematics was selected in March of 2012 as an Outstanding Title in Mathematics by Choice magazine, a publication of the American Library Association. All three authors have revisited the primary sources extensively and deliver new insights about Napier and his works, whilst revising the many myths and assumptions that surround his life and character.
Download or read book Handbook of the Napier Tercentenary Celebration Or Modern Instruments and Methods of Calculation written by Ellice Martin Horsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Doctrine of Triangles written by Glen Van Brummelen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary history of trigonometry from the mid-sixteenth century to the early twentieth The Doctrine of Triangles offers an interdisciplinary history of trigonometry that spans four centuries, starting in 1550 and concluding in the 1900s. Glen Van Brummelen tells the story of trigonometry as it evolved from an instrument for understanding the heavens to a practical tool, used in fields such as surveying and navigation. In Europe, China, and America, trigonometry aided and was itself transformed by concurrent mathematical revolutions, as well as the rise of science and technology. Following its uses in mid-sixteenth-century Europe as the "foot of the ladder to the stars" and the mathematical helpmate of astronomy, trigonometry became a ubiquitous tool for modeling various phenomena, including animal populations and sound waves. In the late sixteenth century, trigonometry increasingly entered the physical world through the practical disciplines, and its societal reach expanded with the invention of logarithms. Calculus shifted mathematical reasoning from geometric to algebraic patterns of thought, and trigonometry’s participation in this new mathematical analysis grew, encouraging such innovations as complex numbers and non-Euclidean geometry. Meanwhile in China, trigonometry was evolving rapidly too, sometimes merging with indigenous forms of knowledge, and with Western discoveries. In the nineteenth century, trigonometry became even more integral to science and industry as a fundamental part of the science and engineering toolbox, and a staple subject in high school classrooms. A masterful combination of scholarly rigor and compelling narrative, The Doctrine of Triangles brings trigonometry’s rich historical past full circle into the modern era.
Download or read book Journal of the Institute of Actuaries written by Institute of Actuaries (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members issued with v. 35-46 with separate paging.
Download or read book The Mathematical Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings written by Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes supplements.
Download or read book Reader s Guide to the History of Science written by Arne Hessenbruch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reader's Guide to the History of Science looks at the literature of science in some 550 entries on individuals (Einstein), institutions and disciplines (Mathematics), general themes (Romantic Science) and central concepts (Paradigm and Fact). The history of science is construed widely to include the history of medicine and technology as is reflected in the range of disciplines from which the international team of 200 contributors are drawn.
Download or read book Journal of the Institute of Actuaries written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Technology and Mathematics written by Sven Ove Hansson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first extensive study of the historical and philosophical connections between technology and mathematics. Coverage includes the use of mathematics in ancient as well as modern technology, devices and machines for computation, cryptology, mathematics in technological education, the epistemology of computer-mediated proofs, and the relationship between technological and mathematical computability. The book also examines the work of such historical figures as Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, and Alan Turing.
Download or read book Proceedings of the Institution of Electrical Engineers written by Institution of Electrical Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1970-79 include an annual special issue called IEE reviews.
Download or read book Mathematics at the Meridian written by Raymond Flood and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greenwich has been a centre for scientific computing since the foundation of the Royal Observatory in 1675. Early Astronomers Royal gathered astronomical data with the purpose of enabling navigators to compute their longitude at sea. Nevil Maskelyne in the 18th century organised the work of computing tables for the Nautical Almanac, anticipating later methods used in safety-critical computing systems. The 19th century saw influential critiques of Charles Babbage’s mechanical calculating engines, and in the 20th century Leslie Comrie and others pioneered the automation of computation. The arrival of the Royal Naval College in 1873 and the University of Greenwich in 1999 has brought more mathematicians and different kinds of mathematics to Greenwich. In the 21st century computational mathematics has found many new applications. This book presents an account of the mathematicians who worked at Greenwich and their achievements. Features A scholarly but accessible history of mathematics at Greenwich, from the seventeenth century to the present day, with each chapter written by an expert in the field The book will appeal to astronomical and naval historians as well as historians of mathematics and scientific computing.
