History of mathematics
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History of mathematics
Paperback. Presents an overview of mathematical activity in Berlin, beginning with the foundation of the Academy by Leibniz. This work covers the foundation of the University of Berlin, the 'Golden Age' of mathematics, the Nazi period, and the development of mathematics in East and West Berlin during the political division of the city. Editor(s): Begehr, Heinrich; Koch, Helmut; Kramer, Jurg; Schappacher, Norbert; Thiele, Ernst-Jochen. Num Pages: 216 pages, 51 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; PBX; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 170 x 11. Weight in Grams: 780.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Birkhauser Verlag AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783764359430
- ISBN
- 9783764359430
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardback. Traces the origins and development of mathematics in the ancient Middle East, from its earliest beginnings in the fourth millennium BCE to the end of indigenous intellectual culture in the second century BCE when cuneiform writing was gradually abandoned. Num Pages: 472 pages, 24 halftones. 51 line illus. 60 tables. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; PBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 164 x 35. Weight in Grams: 798.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 472
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691091822
- ISBN
- 9780691091822
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.90€ 63.58
€ 82.90
€ 63.58
Paperback. Series: Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Num Pages: 684 pages, 4 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: PBH; PBK; PBM; PBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 37. Weight in Grams: 970.
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 684
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of hardcover 3rd ed. 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781461426325
- ISBN
- 9781461426325
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.00
€ 60.00
Hardback. A collection of historical essays detailing a variety of mathematical disciplines and issues. It includes chapters on simple groups and sections on alternating groups and the Poincare conjecture. Series: Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Num Pages: 662 pages, 4 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: PBH; PBKB; PBM; PBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 167 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1170.
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 684
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 3rd ed. 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781441960528
- ISBN
- 9781441960528
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.20€ 56.43
€ 59.20
€ 56.43
Mixed media pr. Mathematics and Culture III Editor(s): Emmer, Michele. Num Pages: 280 pages, 3 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: PBV; PBW; PBX; PDZM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 160 x 16. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Edition
- 2012
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783540342595
- ISBN
- 9783540342595
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.64
€ 67.64
Hardback. Consists of essays about the mathematical knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside the US and Europe. This book includes essays on rationality, logic and mathematics, and the transfer of knowledge from East to West. It addresses the relation between science and culture and relates the mathematical practices to the cultures which produced them. Editor(s): Selin, Helaine. Series: Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science. Num Pages: 499 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PBX; TGP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 26. Weight in Grams: 879.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 499
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792364818
- ISBN
- 9780792364818
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 495.51
€ 495.51
Hardcover. A gently guided, profusely illustrated Grand Tour of the world of mathematics. Num Pages: 1128 pages, Over 1000 technical illustrations and cartoons and drawings. BIC Classification: PBX; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 261 x 190 x 58. Weight in Grams: 2144.
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 1118
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393040029
- ISBN
- 9780393040029
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.04€ 68.72
€ 71.04
€ 68.72
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 82.90€ 63.79
€ 82.90
€ 63.79
Hardback. Editor(s): Burns, Robert G.; Szymaniec, Irena; Weron, Aleksander. Translator(s): Shenitzer, Abe. Series: Vita Mathematica. Num Pages: 492 pages, 19 black & white illustrations, 6 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Publisher
- Birkhauser Verlag AG
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319231013
- ISBN
- 9783319231013
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 147.80
€ 147.80
Hardback. This text contains the following four mathematical treatises of the 15th century polymath, Leon Alberti: Ludi matematici, De Componendis Cifris, Elementi di pittura and De lunularum quadratura. Each treatise, presented in modern English, includes commentary. Editor(s): Williams, Kim; March, Lionel; Wassell, Stephen R. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Birkhauser Verlag AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 221
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783034604734
- ISBN
- 9783034604734
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.71
€ 64.71
Hardcover. This detailed description of the fundamental developments in statistical theory around 1950 points out the centrally important interplay between increasingly refined mathematical techniques and the concomitant developments in methodological concepts. Num Pages: 320 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PBT; PBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642310836
- ISBN
- 9783642310836
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 153.94€ 150.60
€ 153.94
€ 150.60
Paperback. Mathematics can be a passionate subject, and this text introduces the human sides and foibles of mathematics and mathematicians. Each scandal is introduced by a vignette which, although fictional, follows factual historical accounts. Num Pages: 151 pages, b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: PBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 142 x 10. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Wide World Publishing,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 151
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781884550102
- ISBN
- 9781884550102
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.54
€ 12.54
Hardback. Along the way, he tells us what various cultures knew about math and how they came to learn it, providing instructors with a wonderful way to incorporate multicultural mathematics into the middle school, high school, and college classroom. Num Pages: 208 pages, 91, 59 black & white halftones, 32 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: PBW; PBX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421404370
- ISBN
- 9781421404370
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.73€ 59.78
€ 65.73
€ 59.78
Paperback. Along the way, he tells us what various cultures knew about math and how they came to learn it, providing instructors with a wonderful way to incorporate multicultural mathematics into the middle school, high school, and college classroom. Num Pages: 208 pages, 91, 59 black & white halftones, 32 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: PBW; PBX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 158 x 13. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421404387
- ISBN
- 9781421404387
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.45
€ 41.45
Hardback. Editor(s): Larvor, Brendan P. Series: Trends in the History of Science. Num Pages: 468 pages, 30 black & white illustrations, 24 colour illustrations, 14 black & white tables, biograp. BIC Classification: JN; PBB; PBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 859.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Birkhauser Verlag AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 468
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319285801
- ISBN
- 9783319285801
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 191.11
€ 191.11
Paperback. Suitable for both students and teachers who love mathematics and want to study its various branches beyond the limits of school curriculum. This book contains vast theoretical and problem material in main areas of what authors consider to be 'extracurricular mathematics'. Series: Mathematical World. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; PBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 177 x 16. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Publisher
- American Mathematical Society United States
- Number of pages
- 278
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821804308
- ISBN
- 9780821804308
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 88.23
€ 88.23
Paperback / so. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: PBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 8. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1918
- Publisher
- Vieweg+Teubner Verlag United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783663156277
- ISBN
- 9783663156277
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 68.95
€ 68.95
Hardback. This selection of papers by one of the outstanding geometers of the age focuses on the Brazilian professor's specialism of differential geometry and covers a host of topics from convexity and rigidity to relations between curvature and topology. Editor(s): Tenenblat, Keti. Num Pages: 497 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PBMP; PBMS; PBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 168 x 245 x 33. Weight in Grams: 880.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Number of pages
- 497
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642255878
- ISBN
- 9783642255878
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 186.65
€ 186.65
Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 3 halftones. 14 line illus. BIC Classification: PBB; PBX; PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 245 x 164 x 26. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691171715
- ISBN
- 9780691171715
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.29€ 42.46
€ 53.29
€ 42.46
Hardback. This text is based on lectures Couturat gave at the University Caen. It is an outstanding document of the popularization and propagation of symbolic logic around 1900, and it is the only manuscript mentioned in his correspondence that has been rediscovered. Editor(s): Schlaudt, Oliver; Sakhri, Mohsen. Series: Publications des Archives Henri Poincare / Publications of the Henri Poincare Archives / Science Autour de / Around 1900. Num Pages: 317 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Birkhauser Verlag AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 317
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783034604109
- ISBN
- 9783034604109
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.17
€ 135.17