Mathematics category: 12022 books
Russell's Unknown Logicism
A Study in the History and Philosophy of Mathematics
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
In this excellent book Sebastien Gandon focuses mainly on Russell's two major texts, Principa Mathematica and Principle of Mathematics , meticulously unpicking the details of these texts and bringing a new interpretation of both the mathematical and the philosophical content. Winner of The Bertrand Russell Society Book Award 2013.
by William John Cox
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Time Travel is the companion book to Mindkind: Math & Physics for the New Millennium. There we are provided with a new math and physics to carry us forward into the future. In Time Travel, we go back in time to take an insightful look at ancient civilizations and the science and mathematics they...
Stochastic Equations for Complex Systems
Theoretical and Computational Topics
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Mathematical analyses and computational predictions of the behavior of complex systems are needed to effectively deal with weather and climate predictions, for example, and the optimal design of technical processes. Given the random nature of such systems and the recognized relevance of randomness,...
Puzzles, Games, & Tricks
Understanding the Mystery and Magic of Numbers
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Fun facts, formulas, and Fibonacci numbers—a brain-teasing book that brings mathematical ideas to life.
Just how big is a billion? Well, if you had a billion dollars and invested it in a business that lost a thousand dollars a day, do you know how long it would take you to go broke? Answer:...
by James Constant
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2013
Solutions of the Navier–Stokes equations often include turbulence, which remains one of the greatest unsolved problems in physics, despite its immense importance in science and engineering. The Clay Mathematics Institute in May 2000 made this problem one of its seven Millennium Prize problems in...
by Vladimir Maz'ya
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Vladimir Maz'ya (born 1937) is an outstanding mathematician who systematically made fundamental contributions to a wide array of areas in mathematical analysis and in the theory of partial differential equations. In this fascinating book he describes the first thirty years of his life. He starts with...
by Banesh Hoffmann
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
From his unusual beginning in "Defining a vector" to his final comments on "What then is a vector?" author Banesh Hoffmann has written a book that is provocative and unconventional. In his emphasis on the unresolved issue of defining a vector, Hoffmann mixes pure and applied mathematics...
Musica Mathematica
Traditions and Innovations in Contemporary Music
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
The concept of «musica mathematica*»* seeks to accurately examine the intersection of two seemingly radically different subject areas. From the perspective of a European perception, the definition of the science of music was a result of the Pythagorean concept of universal harmony. The Pythagoreans...
The Zen of Magic Squares, Circles, and Stars
An Exhibition of Surprising Structures across Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Humanity's love affair with mathematics and mysticism reached a critical juncture, legend has it, on the back of a turtle in ancient China. As Clifford Pickover briefly recounts in this enthralling book, the most comprehensive in decades on magic squares, Emperor Yu was supposedly strolling along...
The Mathematical Tourist
New and Updated Snapshots of Modern Mathematics
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1998
In the first edition of The Mathematical Tourist, renowned science journalist Ivars Peterson took readers on an unforgettable tour through the sometimes bizarre, but always fascinating, landscape of modern mathematics. Now the journey continues in a new, updated edition that includes all the latest...
by Joseph M. Powers, Mihir Sen
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
This text focuses on a variety of topics in mathematics in common usage in graduate engineering programs including vector calculus, linear and nonlinear ordinary differential equations, approximation methods, vector spaces, linear algebra, integral equations and dynamical systems. The book is designed...
Algebraic Topology
A First Course
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
To the Teacher. This book is designed to introduce a student to some of the important ideas of algebraic topology by emphasizing the re lations of these ideas with other areas of mathematics. Rather than choosing one point of view of modem topology (homotopy theory, simplicial complexes, singular...
by John Casey
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
Euclid’s Elements form one of the most beautiful and influential works of science in the history of humankind. Its beauty lies in its logical development of geometry and other branches of mathematics. It has influenced all branches of science but none so much as mathematics and the exact sciences.
The...
Numbers Rule
The Vexing Mathematics of Democracy, from Plato to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Since the very birth of democracy in ancient Greece, the simple act of voting has given rise to mathematical paradoxes that have puzzled some of the greatest philosophers, statesmen, and mathematicians. Numbers Rule traces the epic quest by these thinkers to create a more perfect democracy and adapt...