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Hardback. While the Jesuits claimed Xu as a convert, he presented the Jesuits as men from afar who had traveled from the West to China to serve the emperor. Num Pages: 384 pages, 17, 15 black & white halftones, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JB; 3JD; PBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 696.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421406060
- ISBN
- 9781421406060
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Condition: New
€ 74.12
€ 74.12
Paperback. This reference on Irish mathematicians includes biographies on: Thomas Harriot (1560-1621); William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865); Robert Murphy (1806-1843); George Boole (1815-1864); George Gabriel Stokes (1819-1903); George Salmon (1819-1904); and John Casey (1820-1891). Editor(s): Houston, Ken. Num Pages: 160 pages, 12pp plates. BIC Classification: 1DBR; BG; HBT; PBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 232 x 14. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University College Dublin Press
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781900621496
- ISBN
- 9781900621496
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.72
€ 23.99
€ 20.72
Paperback. Combinatorics is the branch of discrete mathematics that studies (and counts) permutations, combinations, and arrangements of sets of elements. This book constitutes the first book-length survey of the history of combinatorics and uniquely assembles research in the area that would otherwise be inaccessible to the general reader. Editor(s): Wilson, Robin; Watkins, John J. Num Pages: 400 pages, 130 b/w line drawings, 20 b/w halftones. BIC Classification: PBD; PBV; PBX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 155 x 235 x 23. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198739050
- ISBN
- 9780198739050
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Condition: New
€ 55.56
€ 55.56
Paperback. Lewis Carroll's books have delighted children and adults for generations, but behind their exuberant fantasy and delightful nonsense was the mind of a brilliant mathematician. This title explores the curious imagination of this man who filled his writings with problems, paradoxes, puzzles and teasing games of logic. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: PBX; PDZM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- New Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141016108
- ISBN
- 9780141016108
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.49
€ 23.99
€ 17.49
Paperback. "Any reader who aspires to be scientifically literate will find this a good starting place."-Publishers Weekly Num Pages: 315 pages, 43 illustrations. BIC Classification: PBF; PBX; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 208 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 315
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393337938
- ISBN
- 9780393337938
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Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.85
€ 18.99
€ 17.85
Paperback. Num Pages: 255 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; BGT; PBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 176 x 17. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- American Mathematical Society United States
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821869147
- ISBN
- 9780821869147
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Condition: New
€ 64.30
€ 64.30
Mathematicians Fleeing from Nazi Germany: Individual Fates and Global ...
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze
paperback. The emigration of mathematicians from Europe during the Nazi era signaled an irrevocable and important historical shift for the international mathematics world. This book presents an account of this exodus. It describes the flight of more than 140 mathematicians, their reasons for leaving, and the political and economic issues involved. Num Pages: 504 pages, 59 halftones. 1 table. BIC Classification: 3JJG; 3JJH; PBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 31. Weight in Grams: 722.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 504
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691140414
- ISBN
- 9780691140414
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Condition: New
€ 82.49€ 63.74
€ 82.49
€ 63.74
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781316633304
- ISBN
- 9781316633304
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 24.34
€ 40.99
€ 24.34
Hardback. Num Pages: 744 pages. BIC Classification: PBT; PBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781119127925
- ISBN
- 9781119127925
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.81
€ 145.81
Paperback. Providing insight into one of the most fascinating and unique subjects in statistics, this book examines classic problems of probability that have both contributed to the field and have been of historical significance, including Parrondo's Amazing Paradox, Laplace's Rule of Succession, and Jacob Bernoulli and His Golden Theorem. Num Pages: 328 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: PBT; PBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118063255
- ISBN
- 9781118063255
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Condition: New
€ 74.84
€ 74.84
Paperback. Concentrates on thirty highlights of pure and applied mathematics. This book opens by discussing the four main philosophical foundations of mathematics of the nineteenth century and ends by describing the four important open mathematical problems of the twenty-first century. Translator(s): Sangalli, Arturo. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: PBX; PDZM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691128054
- ISBN
- 9780691128054
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Condition: New
€ 33.00€ 27.63
€ 33.00
€ 27.63
Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: PBKA; PBM; PBW; PBX; PDDM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 29. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Publisher
- Belknap Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674284388
- ISBN
- 9780674284388
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.38
€ 27.99
€ 24.38
Paperback. We all played tag when we were kids. What most of us don't realize is that this simple chase game is in fact an application of pursuit theory. This book gives us the complete history of this area of mathematics, from its classical analytical beginnings to the present day. Series: Princeton Puzzlers. Num Pages: 272 pages, 5 halftones. 67 line illus. BIC Classification: PBUD; PBX; PDZM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 208 x 136 x 19. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Edition
- With a New preface by the author
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691155012
- ISBN
- 9780691155012
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.99
€ 20.99
€ 16.99
Paperback. Shows how life often works at the extremes - with values becoming as small (or as large) as possible - and how mathematicians over the centuries have struggled to calculate these problems of minima and maxima. This is the book on optimization for math enthusiasts of all backgrounds. Num Pages: 392 pages, 99 line illus. BIC Classification: PBU; PBX; PDZM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691130521
- ISBN
- 9780691130521
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.81
€ 33.99
€ 24.81
Paperback. The biography of a mathematical genius. Paul Erdos was the most prolific pure mathematician in history and, arguably, the strangest too. Num Pages: 320 pages, (1 x 16pp b/w). BIC Classification: BGT; PBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857028294
- ISBN
- 9781857028294
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.96
€ 17.99
€ 12.96
Hardback. Revealing the mathematical side of Benjamin Franklin, this book explains the mathematics behind Franklin's popular "Poor Richard's Almanac", which featured such things as population estimates and a host of mathematical digressions. It includes optional math problems that challenge readers to match wits with the Founding Father himself. Num Pages: 272 pages, 9 color plates. 50 halftones. 52 line illus. BIC Classification: PBC; PBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691129563
- ISBN
- 9780691129563
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 22.38
€ 29.99
€ 22.38
Hardcover. This book explains how mathematical ideas evolved in response to the growing levels of organization in human societies, from prehistoric times to the present day. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: PBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198753353
- ISBN
- 9780198753353
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.56
€ 60.56
Paperback. Reveals the important contributions of mathematics to the physical and social sciences, philosophy, religion, literature, and art. Num Pages: 512 pages, 16 pp halftones and numerous figures. BIC Classification: 1QFH; PBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 142 x 33. Weight in Grams: 686.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1964
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195007145
- ISBN
- 9780195007145
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Condition: New
€ 34.33
€ 34.33
Paperback. Editor(s): Pitici, Mircea. Num Pages: 408 pages, 119 color illus. 12 halftones. 31 line illus. 2 tables. BIC Classification: PBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 131.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691175294
- ISBN
- 9780691175294
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.38
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Paperback. Providing a full-length investigations of Pierre de Fermat's life and work, this title provides rare insight into the mathematical genius of a hobbyist who never sought to publish his work, yet who ranked with his contemporaries Pascal and Descartes in shaping the course of modern mathematics. Num Pages: 456 pages, 67 figs. BIC Classification: 3JD; BG; PBX; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 657.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- 2 Revised
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691036663
- ISBN
- 9780691036663
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Condition: New
€ 82.49€ 63.77
€ 82.49
€ 63.77