Mathematics category: 12022 books
Mathematical Cultures
The London Meetings 2012-2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
This collection presents significant contributions from an international network project on mathematical cultures, including essays from leading scholars in the history and philosophy of mathematics and mathematics education.
Mathematics has universal standards of validity. Nevertheless,...
by David Linker, Alan Sultan
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
This book is a rare resource consisting of problems and solutions similar to those seen in mathematics contests from around the world. It is an excellent training resource for high school students who plan to participate in mathematics contests, and a wonderful collection of problems that can be used...
Cases in Mathematics Teacher Education
Tools for Developing Knowledge Needed for Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
(Orginally published in 2008) The goal of AMTE Monograph 4, "Cases in Mathematics Teacher Education: Tools for Developing Knowledge Needed for Teaching", is to provide detailed accounts of case use that will inform the mathematics teacher education community on the range of ways in which cases can...
The Mathematics of Frobenius in Context
A Journey Through 18th to 20th Century Mathematics
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Frobenius made many important contributions to mathematics in the latter part of the 19th century. Hawkins here focuses on his work in linear algebra and its relationship with the work of Burnside, Cartan, and Molien, and its extension by Schur and Brauer. He also discusses the Berlin school of mathematics...
The Correspondence of Charles Hutton
Mathematical Networks in Georgian Britain
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
This book contains all the letters that are known to survive from the correspondence of Charles Hutton (1737-1823). Hutton was one of the most prominent British mathematicians of his generation; he played roles at the Royal Society, the Royal Military Academy, the Board of Longitude, the 'philomath'...
by MIchael P. Closs
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
There is no question that native cultures in the New World exhibit many forms of mathematical development. This Native American mathematics can best be described by considering the nature of the concepts found in a variety of individual New World cultures. Unlike modern mathematics in which numbers and...
Biomathematics
Mathematics of Biostructures and Biodynamics
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 1999
This book presents new mathematics for the description of structure and dynamics in molecular and cellular biology. On an exponential scale it is possible to combine functions describing inner organisation, including finite periodicity, with functions for outside morphology into a complete definition...
by Arkady L Kholodenko
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Although contact geometry and topology is briefly discussed in V I Arnol'd's book “Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics ”(Springer-Verlag, 1989, 2nd edition), it still remains a domain of research in pure mathematics, e.g. see the recent monograph by H Geiges “An Introduction to Contact...
Foundations of Mathematics
Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry and Calculus
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
Foundations of Mathematics offers the university student or interested reader a unique reference book by covering the basics of algebra, trigonometry, geometry, and calculus. There are many instances in the book to demonstrate the interplay and interconnectedness of these topics. The book presents definitions...
Applied Mathematics for Engineers and Physicists
Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
One of the most widely used reference books on applied mathematics for a generation, distributed in multiple languages throughout the world, this text is geared toward use with a one-year advanced course in applied mathematics for engineering students. The treatment assumes a solid background in the...
Algebra in Context
Introductory Algebra from Origins to Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
This book’s unique approach to the teaching of mathematics lies in its use of history to provide a framework for understanding algebra and related fields. With Algebra in Context, students will soon discover why mathematics is such a crucial part not only of civilization but also of everyday life....
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Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Generality is a key value in scientific discourses and practices. Throughout history, it has received a variety of meanings and of uses. This collection of original essays aims to inquire into this diversity. Through case studies taken from the history of mathematics, physics and the life sciences,...
by Alfred North Whitehead
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
"The object of the following chapters is not to teach mathematics, but to enable students from the very beginning of their course to know what the science is about, and why it is necessarily the foundation of exact thought as applied to natural phenomena." Thus begins this volume by the...
by David Eugene Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
This work presents, in English translation, the great discoveries in mathematics from the Renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century. You are able to read the writings of Newton, Leibniz, Pascal, Riemann, Bernoulli, and others, exactly as the world saw them for the first time. Succinct selections...