Mathematics category: 12022 books
From Dedekind to Gödel
Essays on the Development of the Foundations of Mathematics
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Discussions of the foundations of mathematics and their history are frequently restricted to logical issues in a narrow sense, or else to traditional problems of analytic philosophy. From Dedekind to Gödel: Essays on the Development of the Foundations of Mathematics illustrates the much greater variety...
by Robert R. Stoll
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Advanced undergraduate and first-year graduate students have long regarded this text as one of the best available works on matrix theory in the context of modern algebra. Teachers and students will find it particularly suited to bridging the gap between ordinary undergraduate mathematics and completely...
Advanced Calculus
An Introduction to Modern Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Advanced Calculus: An Introduction to Modem Analysis, an advanced undergraduate textbook,provides mathematics majors, as well as students who need mathematics in their field of study,with an introduction to the theory and applications of elementary analysis. The text presents, inan accessible form,...
The Search for Mathematical Roots, 1870-1940
Logics, Set Theories and the Foundations of Mathematics from Cantor through Russell to Gödel
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
While many books have been written about Bertrand Russell's philosophy and some on his logic, I. Grattan-Guinness has written the first comprehensive history of the mathematical background, content, and impact of the mathematical logic and philosophy of mathematics that Russell developed with A. N....
Algebra & Geometry
An Introduction to University Mathematics
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Algebra & Geometry: An Introduction to University Mathematics provides a bridge between high school and undergraduate mathematics courses on algebra and geometry. The author shows students how mathematics is more than a collection of methods by presenting important ideas and their historical origins...
by Harvey Cohn
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
The subject matter loosely called "Riemann surface theory" has been the starting point for the development of topology, functional analysis, modern algebra, and any one of a dozen recent branches of mathematics; it is one of the most valuable bodies of knowledge within mathematics for a...
by Alfred North Whitehead
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Alfred North Whitehead’s Introduction to Mathematics is one of the most charming books ever written about the queen of the sciences. It gives a delightful and intellectually stimulating exposition of mathematical...
by Mark van Atten
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
This volume tackles Gödel's two-stage project of first using Husserl's transcendental phenomenology to reconstruct and develop Leibniz' monadology, and then founding classical mathematics on the metaphysics thus obtained. The author analyses the historical and systematic aspects of that project,...
Bent Functions
Fundamentals and Results
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
This book gives a detailed survey of the main results on bent functions over finite fields, presents a systematic overview of their generalizations, variations and applications, considers open problems in classification and systematization of bent functions, and discusses proofs of several results....
Where Mathematics goes wrong?...
Mathematical Fallacies, Howlers & Number tricks …
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The scope is wide for fallacies. This book provides valuable information to those who are interested in the bypaths of mathematics. Using fallacies in the class may be a way of arousing the interest of students in mathematics. Further, it can be a part of problem-based learning that can have a positive and long-lasting impact on the students. So, be ready for enjoyment and enlightenment...
Redeeming Mathematics
A God-Centered Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2015
What does God have to do with mathematics?
Everything.
In this book, Vern Poythress argues that the harmony of abstract mathematical truths, the physical world of things, and the personal world of our thinking depends on the existence of the Christian God. Poythress shows that these...
by Michael Pedersen
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Presenting excellent material for a first course on functional analysis , Functional Analysis in Applied Mathematics and Engineering concentrates on material that will be useful to control engineers from the disciplines of electrical, mechanical, and aerospace engineering.
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Interdisciplinarity for the 21st Century
Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Mathematics and its connections to the Arts and Sciences, Moncton 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Interdisciplinarity has become increasingly important for emergent professions of the 21st century yet there is a dearth of systematic studies aimed at implementing it in the school and university curricula. The Mathematics and its Connections to the Arts and Sciences (MACAS ) group places Mathematics...
by Yoshio Mikami, David E. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
One of the first books to show Westerners the nature of Japanese mathematics, this survey highlights the leading features in the development of the wasan, the Japanese system of mathematics. Topics include the use of the soroban, or abacus; the application of sangi, or counting rods, to algebra; the...