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What exactly is analysis?What are infinitely small or infinitely large quantities?What are indivisibles and infinitesimals?What are real numbers, continuity, the continuum, differentials, and integrals?You’ll find the answers to these and other questions in this unique...
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Birkhäuser
Parution :
2020-12-27
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Jamshid al-Kashi’s Mifta? al-?isab (Key to Arithmetic) was largely unknown to researchers until the mid-20th century, and has not been translated to English until now. This is the second book in a multi-volume set that finally brings al-Kashi’s groundbreaking textbook...
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Birkhäuser
Parution :
2020-12-02
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This volume offers a new English translation, introduction, and detailed commentary on Sefer Meyasher 'Aqov, (The Rectifying of the Curved), a 14th-century Hebrew treatise on the foundation of geometry. The book is a mixture of two genres: philosophical discussion...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-11-26
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The name Emmy Noether is one of the most celebrated in the history of mathematics. A brilliant algebraist and iconic figure for women in modern science, Noether exerted a strong influence on the younger mathematicians of her time and long thereafter; today, she is known...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-11-23
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This volume combines an introduction to central collineations with an introduction to projective geometry, set in its historical context and aiming to provide the reader with a general history through the middle of the nineteenth century. Topics covered include but are...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-09-01
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This monograph examines the private annotations that Ludwig Wittgenstein made to his copy of G.H. Hardy’s classic textbook, A Course of Pure Mathematics. Complete with actual images of the annotations, it gives readers a more complete picture of Wittgenstein’s remarks...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-08-31
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This book documents the process of transformation from natural philosophy, which was considered the most important of the sciences until the early modern era, into modern disciplines such as mathematics, physics, natural history, chemistry, medicine and engineering. It...
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Springer
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2020-08-25
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This book deals with the general concepts in stereotomy and its connection with descriptive geometry, the social background of its practitioners and theoreticians, the general methods and tools of this technology, and the specific procedures for the members built in...
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Birkhäuser
Parution :
2020-08-08
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Der Band enthält eine umfassende und problemorientierte Darstellung der antiken griechischen Mathematik von Thales bis zu Proklos Diadochos. Exemplarisch wird ein Querschnitt durch die griechische Mathematik geboten, wobei auch solche Werke von Wissenschaftlern...
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Springer Spektrum
Parution :
2020-07-31
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This book presents an overview of the ways in which women have been able to conduct mathematical research since the 18th century, despite their general exclusion from the sciences. Grouped into four thematic sections, the authors concentrate on well-known figures like...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-07-29
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What does 'if' mean?
It is one of the most commonly used words in the English language, in itself a sign to the importance of conditional thinking to human cognitive life. We make conditional statements, ask conditional questions, and issue conditional orders. We need...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-07-02
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This book presents a novel methodology to study economic texts. The author investigates discrepancies in these writings by focusing on errors, mistakes, and rounding numbers. In particular, he looks at the acquisition, use, and development of practical mathematics in an...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-03-11
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Why the Sciences of the Ancient World Matter
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This open access book explores commentaries on an influential text of pre-Copernican astronomy in Europe. It features essays that take a close look at key intellectuals and how they engaged with the main ideas of this qualitative introduction to geocentric...
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Springer
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2020-01-23
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This volume contains ten papers that have been collected by the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/Société canadienne d’histoire et de philosophie des mathématiques. It showcases rigorously-reviewed contemporary scholarship on an interesting...
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Birkhäuser
Parution :
2020-01-02
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This edited collection covers Friedrich Waismann's most influential contributions to twentieth-century philosophy of language: his concepts of open texture and language strata, his early criticism of verificationism and the analytic-synthetic distinction, as well as...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-09-28
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History of Analytic Philosophy
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This book examines the role of medieval authors in writing the history of ancient science. It features essays that explore the content, structure, and ideas behind technical writings on medieval Chinese state history. In particular, it looks at the Ten Treatises of the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-09-19
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Jamshid al-Kashi’s Mifta? al-?isab (Key to Arithmetic) was largely unknown to researchers until the mid-20th century, and has not been translated to English until now. This book begins a multi-volume set that finally brings al-Kashi’s groundbreaking textbook to...
Editeur :
Birkhäuser
Parution :
2019-05-23
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The science of magic squares witnessed an important development in the Islamic world during the Middle Ages, with a great variety of construction methods being created and ameliorated.The initial step was the translation, in the ninth century, of an...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-05-21
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As Robyn Arianrhod shows in this new biography, the most complete to date, Thomas Harriot was a pioneer in both the figurative and literal sense. Navigational adviser and loyal friend to Sir Walter Ralegh, Harriot--whose life was almost exactly contemporaneous to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-04-04
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Dieses Buch wendet sich an interessierte Laien sowie professionelle Mathematiker und spricht zahlreiche Aspekte dieser Wissenschaft an. Das Werk zeigt insbesondere, wie die Mathematik aufgebaut ist und wie sie arbeitet. Beispiele aus der Praxis werden dabei ebenso...
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Springer Spektrum
Parution :
2019-04-03
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