Mathematics category: 12022 books
Mathematics in Twentieth-Century Literature and Art
Content, Form, Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
During the twentieth century, many artists and writers turned to abstract mathematical ideas to help them realize their aesthetic ambitions. Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, and, perhaps most famously, Piet Mondrian used principles of mathematics in their work. Was it mere coincidence, or were these artists...
Exploring Mathematics
An Engaging Introduction to Proof
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Exploring Mathematics gives students experience with doing mathematics - interrogating mathematical claims, exploring definitions, forming conjectures, attempting proofs, and presenting results - and engages them with examples, exercises, and projects that pique their interest. Written with a minimal...
by Lancelot Hogben
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 1993
"It makes alive the contents of the elements of mathematics."—Albert Einstein
Taking only the most elementary knowledge for granted, Lancelot Hogben leads readers of this famous book through the whole course from simple arithmetic to calculus. His illuminating explanation is addressed...
A History of Greek Mathematics, Volume I
From Thales to Euclid
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
"As it is, the book is indispensable; it has, indeed, no serious English rival." — Times Literary Supplement.
"Sir Thomas Heath, foremost English historian of the ancient exact sciences in the twentieth century." — Professor W. H. Stahl
"Indeed, seeing that so much of...
A History of Greek Mathematics, Volume II
From Aristarchus to Diophantus
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
"As it is, the book is indispensable; it has, indeed, no serious English rival." — Times Literary Supplement
"Sir Thomas Heath, foremost English historian of the ancient exact sciences in the twentieth century." — Prof. W. H. Stahl
"Indeed, seeing that so much of Greek...
Mathemusical Conversations
Mathematics and Computation in Music Performance and Composition
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Mathemusical Conversations celebrates the understanding of music through mathematics, and the appreciation of mathematics through music. This volume is a compilation of the invited talks given at the Mathemusical Conversations workshop that took place in Singapore from 13–15 February 2015, organized...
by Béla Bajnok
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This undergraduate textbook is intended primarily for a transition course into higher mathematics, although it is written with a broader audience in mind. The heart and soul of this book is problem solving, where each problem is carefully chosen to clarify a concept, demonstrate a technique, or...
Mathematics in the 21st Century
6th World Conference, Lahore, March 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Numerous well-presented and important papers from the conference are gathered in the proceedings for the purpose of pointing directions for useful future research in diverse areas of mathematics including algebraic geometry, analysis, commutative algebra, complex analysis, discrete mathematics, dynamical...
by Suzanne Lenhart, Erin N. Bodine, Louis J. Gross
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2014
The life sciences deal with a vast array of problems at different spatial, temporal, and organizational scales. The mathematics necessary to describe, model, and analyze these problems is similarly diverse, incorporating quantitative techniques that are rarely taught in standard undergraduate courses....
by Mickael Launay
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
‘Fascinating … so enlightening that suddenly maths doesn’t seem so fearsome as it once did’ SIMON WINCHESTER From Aristotle to Ada Lovelace: a brief history of the mathematical ideas that have forever changed the world and the everyday people and pioneers behind them. The story of our best...
Cracking Mathematics
You, this book and 4,000 years of theories
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
This comprehensive guide covers the history and development of mathematics, from the Ancient Egyptians and Pythagoreans to key figures such as Galileo, Dodgson, Babbage and Lovelace through to contemporary work of the 21st century. It tells of the remarkable stories that have shaped mathematics and...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Classical computable model theory is most naturally concerned with countable domains. There are, however, several methods – some old, some new – that have extended its basic concepts to uncountable structures. Unlike in the classical case, however, no single dominant approach has emerged, and...
by Roman Murawski
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
The aim of this book is to present and analyze philosophical conceptions concerning mathematics and logic as formulated by Polish logicians, mathematicians and philosophers in the 1920s and 1930s. It was a remarkable period in the history of Polish science, in particular in the history of Polish...
Philosophy of Mathematics
A Contemporary Introduction to the World of Proofs and Pictures
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2010
In his long-awaited new edition of Philosophy of Mathematics, James Robert Brown tackles important new as well as enduring questions in the mathematical sciences. Can pictures go beyond being merely suggestive and actually prove anything? Are mathematical results certain? Are experiments of any real...