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Otto Blumenthals Karriere war geprägt von Glück und Tragik. Als erster Doktorand wie auch Biograph David Hilberts stand er dem berühmten Göttinger Milieu sehr nah. Er wirkte fast drei Jahrzehnte an der Technischen Hochschule Aachen, wo er mit Kollegen wie Arnold...
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Springer Spektrum
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2019-04-02
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This groundbreaking volume provides an up-to-date, accessible guide to Sanskrit astronomical tables and their analysis. It begins with an overview of Indian mathematical astronomy and its literature, including table texts, in the context of history of pre-modern...
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Springer
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2019-03-07
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Als 22-Jähriger enthüllte Felix Klein dem norwegischen Mathematiker Sophus Lie sein immer vorhandenes Bedürfniß nach socialer Thätigkeit, welches mich nicht zufrieden läßt, wenn ich mich nur abstract mit der reinen Wissenschaft beschäftige. Die vorliegende Biographie...
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Springer Spektrum
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2019-03-07
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This book is about James Gregory’s attempt to prove that the quadrature of the circle, the ellipse and the hyperbola cannot be found algebraically. Additonally, the subsequent debates that ensued between Gregory, Christiaan Huygens and G.W. Leibniz are presented and...
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Birkhäuser
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2019-03-06
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Dieser Band enthält zum ersten Mal eine Darstellung der Mathematik Altägyptens und Mesopotamiens in deutscher Sprache.Einer der beiden Hochkulturen verdanken wir den Ursprung der Schrift und damit auch der Zahldarstellung; sie stellen damit den Ursprung unserer...
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Springer Spektrum
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2019-02-15
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Luciano Floridi presents an innovative approach to philosophy, conceived as conceptual design. He explores how we make, transform, refine, and improve the objects of our knowledge. His starting point is that reality provides the data, to be understood as constraining...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-02-14
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Luciano Floridi presents an innovative approach to philosophy, conceived as conceptual design. He explores how we make, transform, refine, and improve the objects of our knowledge. His starting point is that reality provides the data, to be understood as constraining...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-01-21
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This volume traces back the history of interaction between the “computational” or “algorithmic” aspects of elementary mathematics and mathematics education throughout ages. More specifically, the examples of mathematical practices analyzed by the historians of...
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Springer
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2019-01-11
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This open access book provides an overview of Felix Klein’s ideas, highlighting developments in university teaching and school mathematics related to Klein’s thoughts, stemming from the last century. It discusses the meaning, importance and the legacy of Klein’s ideas...
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Springer
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2018-12-11
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This book consists of eleven new essays that provide new insights into classical and contemporary issues surrounding free will and human agency. They investigate topics such as the nature of practical knowledge and its role in intentional action; mental content and...
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Springer
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2018-11-14
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This book identifies three of the exceptionally fruitful periods of the millennia-long history of the mathematical tradition of India: the very beginning of that tradition in the construction of the now-universal system of decimal numeration and of a framework for...
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Springer
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2018-09-19
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This volume contains thirteen papers that were presented at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/Société canadienne d’histoire et de philosophie des mathématiques, which was held at Ryerson University in Toronto. It...
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Birkhäuser
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2018-09-14
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This book provides a critical edition, translation, and study of the version of Euclid’s treatise made by Thabit ibn Qurra, which is the earliest Arabic version that we have in its entirety.This monograph study examines the conceptual differences between the Greek...
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Springer
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2018-08-22
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This is the second and final volume of Dutch physicist Hendrik Antoon Lorentz's scientific correspondence with Dutch colleagues, including Pieter Zeeman and Paul Ehrenfest. These 294 letters cover multiple subjects, ranging from pure mathematics to magneto-optics and...
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Springer
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2018-07-27
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Dieser Band bietet einen Einblick in das frühe Leben und Wirken Otto Blumenthals. Zusammen mit einer ausführlichen Biographie, die sich auf die Jahre 1897-1918 konzentriert, vermittelt eine Vielzahl an Schriften und Briefen ein lebhaftes Bild des Mathematikers und...
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Springer Spektrum
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2018-06-05
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This book provides a thrilling history of the famous priority dispute between Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Isaac Newton, presenting the episode for the first time in the context of cultural history. It introduces readers to the background of the dispute, details its...
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Birkhäuser
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2018-04-12
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This broad and insightful book presents current scholarship in important subfields of philosophy of science and addresses an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary readership. It groups carefully selected contributions into the four fields of I) philosophy of physics,...
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Springer
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2018-03-26
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Historian David E. Rowe captures the rich tapestry of mathematical creativity in this collection of essays from the “Years Ago” column of The Mathematical Intelligencer. With topics ranging from ancient Greek mathematics to modern relativistic cosmology, this collection...
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Springer
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2018-02-13
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Das vorliegende Buch schildert, wie sich die Geometrie in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jhs. allmählich von der Beschränkung der bis dato als selbstverständlich angenommenen Einzigartigkeit und Dreidimensionalität des Raumes befreite, was die Motive hierfür waren und...
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Springer Spektrum
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2018-02-09
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This volume contains fourteen papers that were presented at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/La Société Canadienne d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Mathématiques, held at the University of Calgary in Alberta,...
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Birkhäuser
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2017-12-18
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