Mathematics category: 12022 books
A Passage to Infinity
Medieval Indian Mathematics from Kerala and Its Impact
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
This book traces the first faltering steps taken in the mathematical theorisation of infinity which marks the emergence of modern mathematics. It analyses the part played by Indian mathematicians through the Kerala conduit, which is an important but neglected part of the history of mathematics.
Passage...
Linear Methods
A General Education Course
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
Linear Methods: A General Education Course is expressly written for non-mathematical students, particularly freshmen taking a required core mathematics course. Rather than covering a hodgepodge of different topics as is typical for a core mathematics course, this text encourages students to explore...
by Martin Liebeck
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Accessible to all students with a sound background in high school mathematics, A Concise Introduction to Pure Mathematics, Fourth Edition presents some of the most fundamental and beautiful ideas in pure mathematics. It covers not only standard material but also many interesting topics not usually...
How to Bake Pi
An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
One of the world's most creative mathematicians finds the meaning of mathematics in the kitchen in this "whimsical...rigorous and insightful" (New York Times) book
What is math? How exactly does it work? And what do three siblings trying to share a cake have to do with it? In How to Bake Pi,...
by Anne Rooney
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
In order to understand the universe you must know the language in which it is written. And that language is mathematics.' Galileo (1564-1642) For hundreds of thousands of years, we have sought order in the apparent chaos of the universe. Mathematics has been our most valuable tool in that search, uncovering...
Mathematics without Apologies
Portrait of a Problematic Vocation
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
What do pure mathematicians do, and why do they do it? Looking beyond the conventional answers—for the sake of truth, beauty, and practical applications—this book offers an eclectic panorama of the lives and values and hopes and fears of mathematicians in the twenty-first century, assembling material...
Philosophy of Mathematics
An Introduction to a World of Proofs and Pictures
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Philosophy of Mathematics is an excellent introductory text. This student friendly book discusses the great philosophers and the importance of mathematics to their thought. It includes the following topics:
* the mathematical image
* platonism
* picture-proofs
* applied mathematics
* Hilbert and Godel
*...
by Vladimir Tasic
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2001
This is a charming and insightful contribution to an understanding of the "Science Wars" between postmodernist humanism and science, driving toward a resolution of the mutual misunderstanding that has driven the controversy. It traces the root of postmodern theory to a debate on the foundations...
by Prof. Dennis Sentilles
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
This helpful workbook-style "bridge" book introduces students to the foundations of advanced mathematics, spanning the gap between a practically oriented calculus sequence and subsequent courses in algebra and analysis with a more theoretical slant.
Part 1 focuses on logic and number systems,...
Mathematicians Fleeing from Nazi Germany
Individual Fates and Global Impact
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
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 Germany is the first thoroughly documented account of this exodus. In this greatly expanded translation...
Circles Disturbed
The Interplay of Mathematics and Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2012
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 the great Greek mathematician Archimedes before he was slain by a Roman soldier--"Don't disturb my...
by José Ferreirós
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
This book presents a new approach to the epistemology of mathematics by viewing mathematics as a human activity whose knowledge is intimately linked with practice. Charting an exciting new direction in the philosophy of mathematics, José Ferreirós uses the crucial idea of a continuum to provide...
by Bob Clark
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
This book uses Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophical methodology to solve a problem that has perplexed thinkers for thousands of years: 'how come (abstract) mathematics applies so wonderfully well to the (concrete, physical) world?' The book is distinctive in several ways. First, it gives the reader...
How to Solve the Da Vinci Code
And 34 Other Really Interesting Uses of Mathematics
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Can you outrun a bullet?
How do you build an electronic brain?
Is it possible to create an unbreakable code?
Could you slow down time?
How do you unleash chaos?
If you thought mathematics was all about measuring angles in a triangle or factorizing equations, think again ... How to Build a Brain...