Download or read book A History of Chinese Mathematics written by Jean-Claude Martzloff and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-08-17 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is made up of two parts, the first devoted to general, historical and cultural background, and the second to the development of each subdiscipline that together comprise Chinese mathematics. The book is uniquely accessible, both as a topical reference work, and also as an overview that can be read and reread at many levels of sophistication by both sinologists and mathematicians alike.

Download or read book Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics 1640 1940 written by Ivor Grattan-Guinness and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2005-02-11 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, foundations and philosophy. Sometimes two writings from the same period and the same subject are taken together. The biography of the author(s) is recorded, and the circumstances of the preparation of the writing are given. When the writing is of some lengths an analytical table of its contents is supplied. The contents of the writing is reviewed, and its impact described, at least for the immediate decades. Each article ends with a bibliography of primary and secondary items. - First book of its kind - Covers the period 1640-1940 of massive development in mathematics - Describes many of the main writings of mathematics - Articles written by specialists in their field

Download or read book Mat riaux pour l histoire des math matiques au XXe si cle written by Société mathématique de France and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents many of the talks given at the Jean Dieudonne memorial conference held in Nice (France). These papers make a valuable contribution to the history of mathematics in the 20th century. Text is in French. Contributors include: P. Deligne, B. Eckmann, L. Garding, T. Hawkins, C. Houzel, J.-P. Kahane, Yu. I. Manin, G. Pisier, R. Remmert, N. Schappacher

Download or read book L Europe math matique Mathematical Europe written by Catherine Goldstein and published by Les Editions de la MSH. This book was released on 1996 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Une image courante des mathématiques en fait une discipline née en Europe et se répandant ensuite dans le monde entier. L'histoire récente des sciences récuse ce récit simpliste en montrant les formations mathématiques et les interactions en jeu, tant à l'intérieur qu'à l'extérieur de l'Europe. Synthétisant ces résultats, l'ouvrage va plus loin et cherche à comprendre la raison d'être et les modalités du récit usuel, ainsi que la constitution concrète des mathématiques européennes. De l'Extrême-Orient aux centres fluctuants de l'Europe géographique, de l'Antiquité classique aux nations modernes, la recherche de l'Europe mathématique mène à la réflexion sur les rapports entre sciences et sociétés.

Download or read book A Concise History of Mathematics written by Dirk J. Struik and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compact, well-written history — first published in 1948, and now in its fourth revised edition — describes the main trends in the development of all fields of mathematics from the first available records to the middle of the 20th century. Students, researchers, historians, specialists — in short, everyone with an interest in mathematics — will find it engrossing and stimulating. Beginning with the ancient Near East, the author traces the ideas and techniques developed in Egypt, Babylonia, China, and Arabia, looking into such manuscripts as the Egyptian Papyrus Rhind, the Ten Classics of China, and the Siddhantas of India. He considers Greek and Roman developments from their beginnings in Ionian rationalism to the fall of Constantinople; covers medieval European ideas and Renaissance trends; analyzes 17th- and 18th-century contributions; and offers an illuminating exposition of 19th century concepts. Every important figure in mathematical history is dealt with — Euclid, Archimedes, Diophantus, Omar Khayyam, Boethius, Fermat, Pascal, Newton, Leibniz, Fourier, Gauss, Riemann, Cantor, and many others. For this latest edition, Dr. Struik has both revised and updated the existing text, and also added a new chapter on the mathematics of the first half of the 20th century. Concise coverage is given to set theory, the influence of relativity and quantum theory, tensor calculus, the Lebesgue integral, the calculus of variations, and other important ideas and concepts. The book concludes with the beginnings of the computer era and the seminal work of von Neumann, Turing, Wiener, and others. "The author's ability as a first-class historian as well as an able mathematician has enabled him to produce a work which is unquestionably one of the best." — Nature Magazine.

Download or read book Faire de l histoire des math matiques written by Jean G. Dhombres and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Concise History of Mathematics written by Dirk Jan Struik and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1967 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compact, well-written history covers major mathematical ideas and techniques from the ancient Near East to 20th-century computer theory, surveying the works of Archimedes, Pascal, Gauss, Hilbert, and many others. "The author's ability as a first-class historian as well as an able mathematician has enabled him to produce a work which is unquestionably one of the best." — Nature.

Download or read book History of Mathematics General survey of the history of elementary mathematics written by David Eugene Smith and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book History of Mathematics written by Vagn Lundsgaard Hansen and published by EOLSS Publications. This book was released on 2010-12-20 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of Mathematics is a component of Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. The Theme on History of Mathematics discusses: Mathematics in Egypt and Mesopotamia; History of Trigonometryto 1550; Mathematics in Japan; The Mathematization of The Physical Sciences-Differential Equations of Nature; A Short History of Dynamical Systems Theory:1885-2007; Measure Theories and Ergodicity Problems; The Number Concept and Number Systems; Operations Research and Mathematical Programming: From War to Academia - A Joint Venture; Elementary Mathematics From An Advanced Standpoint; The History and Concept of Mathematical Proof; Geometry in The 20th Century; Bourbaki: An Epiphenomenon in The History of Mathematics This volume is aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College Students Educators, Professional Practitioners, Research Personnel and Policy Analysts, Managers, and Decision Makers, NGOs and GOs.

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.

Download or read book History of Mathematics and Its Contexts written by Andrea Verdugo Rohrer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of Mathematics by David Eugene Smith General survey of the history of elementary mathematics written by David Eugene Smith and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ibn al Haytham s Geometrical Methods and the Philosophy of Mathematics written by Roshdi Rashed and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fifth volume of A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics is complemented by four preceding volumes which focused on the main chapters of classical mathematics: infinitesimal geometry, theory of conics and its applications, spherical geometry, mathematical astronomy, etc. This book includes seven main works of Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) and of two of his predecessors, Thābit ibn Qurra and al-Sijzī: The circle, its transformations and its properties; Analysis and synthesis: the founding of analytical art; A new mathematical discipline: the Knowns; The geometrisation of place; Analysis and synthesis: examples of the geometry of triangles; Axiomatic method and invention: Thābit ibn Qurra; The idea of an Ars Inveniendi: al-Sijzī. Including extensive commentary from one of the world’s foremost authorities on the subject, this fundamental text is essential reading for historians and mathematicians at the most advanced levels of research.

Download or read book Philosophy of Mathematics and Mathematical Practice in the Seventeenth Century written by Paolo Mancosu and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. Philosophy of Mathematics and Mathematical Practice in the Early Seventeenth Century p. 8 1.1 The Quaestio de Certitudine Mathematicarum p. 10 1.2 The Quaestio in the Seventeenth Century p. 15 1.3 The Quaestio and Mathematical Practice p. 24 2. Cavalieri's Geometry of Indivisibles and Guldin's Centers of Gravity p. 34 2.1 Magnitudes, Ratios, and the Method of Exhaustion p. 35 2.2 Cavalieri's Two Methods of Indivisibles p. 38 2.3 Guldin's Objections to Cavalieri's Geometry of Indivisibles p. 50 2.4 Guldin's Centrobaryca and Cavalieri's Objections p. 56 3. Descartes' Geometrie p. 65 3.1 Descartes' Geometrie p. 65 3.2 The Algebraization of Mathematics p. 84 4. The Problem of Continuity p. 92 4.1 Motion and Genetic Definitions p. 94 4.2 The "Causal" Theories in Arnauld and Bolzano p. 100 4.3 Proofs by Contradiction from Kant to the Present p. 105 5. Paradoxes of the Infinite p. 118 5.1 Indivisibles and Infinitely Small Quantities p. 119 5.2 The Infinitely Large p. 129 6. Leibniz's Differential Calculus and Its Opponents p. 150 6.1 Leibniz's Nova Methodus and L'Hopital's Analyse des Infiniment Petits p. 151 6.2 Early Debates with Cluver and Nieuwentijt p. 156 6.3 The Foundational Debate in the Paris Academy of Sciences p. 165 Appendix Giuseppe Biancani's De Mathematicarum Natura p. 178 Notes p. 213 References p. 249 Index p. 267.

Download or read book Changing Images in Mathematics written by Umberto Bottazini and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on some of the major developments in the history of contemporary (19th and 20th century) mathematics as seen in the broader context of the development of science and culture. Avoiding technicalities, it displays the breadth of contrasting images of mathematics favoured by different countries, schools and historical movements, showing how the conception and practice of mathematics changed over time depending on the cultural and national context. Thus it provides an original perspective for embracing the richness and variety inherent in the development of mathematics. Attention is paid to the interaction of mathematics with themes whose proper treatment have been neglected by the traditional historiography of the discipline, such as the relationship between mathematics, statistics and medicine.

Download or read book Revue Semestrielle Des Publications Math matiques written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: