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History of mathematics
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
€ 15.00€ 12.65
€ 15.00
€ 12.65
Paperback. In this Very Short Introduction, Jacqueline Stedall explores the rich historical and cultural diversity of mathematical endeavour from the distant past to the present day, using illustrative case studies drawn from a range of times and places; including early imperial China, the medieval Islamic world, and nineteenth-century Britain. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 144 pages, 15 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: PBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 170 x 111 x 9. Weight in Grams: 134.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199599684
- ISBN
- 9780199599684
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.59
€ 11.99
€ 10.59
Hardcover. Praise for the Second Edition "An amazing assemblage of worldwide contributions in mathematics and, in addition to use as a course book, a valuable resource.. essential. Num Pages: 648 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: PBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 261 x 179 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1278.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Number of pages
- 648
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118217566
- ISBN
- 9781118217566
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Condition: New
€ 153.01
€ 153.01
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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€ 17.99€ 17.37
€ 17.99
€ 17.37
Paperback. Archimedes (ca 287 BCE-ca 212 BCE) was a mathematician, physicist, scientist, and engineer. Born in Syracuse, Sicily, the Greek Archimedes was an inventor par excellence. This title tells of the life and mind of one of antiquity's important and innovative thinkers. Translator(s): Smith, R. Alden. Num Pages: 125 pages, colour photos. BIC Classification: BGX; PBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 149 x 12. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Baylor University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 125
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781602583115
- ISBN
- 9781602583115
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Condition: New
€ 39.48
€ 39.48
hardcover. This book demonstrates how, in the Europe of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, literary writers, philosophers, and mathematicians together developed and shaped the idea of modern probability, both scientifically and aesthetically. Translator(s): Wiggins, Ellwood. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 504 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; PBT; PBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 865. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 504
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804768641
- ISBN
- 9780804768641
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Condition: New
€ 198.06
€ 198.06
Paperback. Includes an introduction, contextualizing his book in light of developing philosophical trends. Num Pages: 246 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: PBT; PBX; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 227 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382. A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas About Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference. 246 pages. Includes an introduction, contextualizing his book in light of developing philosophical trends. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: PBT; PBX; PDA. Dimension: 155 x 227 x 17. Weight: 334.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 246
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521685573
- ISBN
- 9780521685573
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 30.74
€ 31.99
€ 30.74
Hardback. Throughout the book, readers take a journey throughout time and observe how people around the world have understood these patterns of quantity, structure, and dimension around them. Num Pages: 252 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: PBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 236 x 21. Weight in Grams: 568.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118853849
- ISBN
- 9781118853849
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Condition: New
€ 100.17
€ 100.17
hardcover. Complements the previous collection of articles by the author, "Essays on Early Medieval Mathematics", and deals with the development of mathematics in Europe from the 12th century to about 1500. Including the discoveries of Johannes Regiomontanus in trigonometry and algebra, this book cover the knowledge and application of Euclid's "Elements". Series: Variorum Collected Studies. Num Pages: 354 pages, Includes 7 b&w figures. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLC; PBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 27. Weight in Grams: 644.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 354
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780860789574
- ISBN
- 9780860789574
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Condition: New
€ 203.00
€ 203.00
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: PBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Pittsburgh Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822962700
- ISBN
- 9780822962700
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 30.99
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€ 30.99
Paperback. Ranging from the Ishango Bone of central Africa and the Inca quipu of South America to the dawn of modern mathematics, this book points out that human beings everywhere have been capable of advanced and innovative mathematical thinking. It shows us the deep influence that the Egyptians and Babylonians had on the Greeks. Num Pages: 584 pages, 6 halftones. 164 line illus. 18 tables. 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1F; 1H; 1KLS; PBX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 828.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 592
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Third
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691135267
- ISBN
- 9780691135267
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Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.66
€ 45.99
€ 32.66
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486797939
- ISBN
- 9780486797939
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Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 9.35
€ 9.99
€ 9.35
Paperback. A handy where-to-find-it pocket reference companion to Euclid's Elements. Provides all the propositions and diagrams without the detailed proofs. Readers can use it to see the scope and structure of Elements, identify exactly what Euclid covers and what he doesn't, and to find the location of remembered propositions. Editor(s): Densmore, Dana. Translator(s): Heath, Thomas L. Num Pages: 212 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: PBH; PBM; PBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 132 x 12. Weight in Grams: 199.
- Publisher
- Green Lion Press United States
- Number of pages
- 212
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781888009217
- ISBN
- 9781888009217
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Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 13.69
€ 14.99
€ 13.69
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
€ 38.99€ 28.58
€ 38.99
€ 28.58
Hardcover. Optimists believe this is the best of all possible worlds, and pessimists fear that might really be the case. There was a time, during the 17th and 18th centuries, when scientists and mathematicians felt they could provide the answer. This book is their story. Num Pages: 208 pages, 10 line drawings. BIC Classification: PBX; PDX; PDZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226199948
- ISBN
- 9780226199948
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Condition: New
€ 39.05
€ 39.05
Hardcover. Authoritative and fully illustrated account of the ten years of conservation, imaging and scholarship on the world's greatest palimpsest. Editor(s): Netz, Reviel; Noel, William; Wilson, Nigel; Tchernetska, Natalie. Series: The Archimedes Palimpsest Publications. Num Pages: 700 pages, 58 b/w illus. 127 colour illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; GM; HBLA1; PBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 341 x 252 x 79. Weight in Grams: 5040. Series: The Archimedes Palimpsest Publications. 700 pages, 58 b/w illus. 127 colour illus. Editor(s): Netz, Reviel; Noel, William; Wilson, Nigel; Tchernetska, Natalie. Authoritative and fully illustrated account of the ten years of conservation, imaging and scholarship on the world's greatest palimpsest. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; GM; HBLA1; PBX. Dimension: 341 x 252 x 79. Weight: 5014.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 700
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107016842
- ISBN
- 9781107016842
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 264.71
€ 264.71
hardcover. Authoritative account of the ten years of conservation, imaging and scholarship on the world's greatest palimpsest. Editor(s): Netz, Reviel; Noel, William; Wilson, Nigel; Tchernetska, Natalie. Series: The Archimedes Palimpsest Publications. Num Pages: 350 pages, 58 b/w illus. 127 colour illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; HBLA1; PBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 249 x 348 x 40. Weight in Grams: 2522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781107014572
- ISBN
- 9781107014572
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Condition: New
€ 150.83
€ 150.83
hardcover. Complete set of colour images and transcriptions of the most important manuscripts discovered in the Archimedes Palimpsest. Editor(s): Netz, Reviel; Noel, William; Wilson, Nigel; Tchernetska, Natalie. Series: The Archimedes Palimpsest Publications. Num Pages: 352 pages, 160 colour illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; HBLA1; PBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 343 x 250 x 79. Weight in Grams: 2504.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781107014374
- ISBN
- 9781107014374
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Condition: New
€ 135.38€ 128.85
€ 135.38
€ 128.85
Paperback. An autobiography of mathematician Stanislaw Ulam, one of the great scientific minds of the twentieth century, tells a story with prophetic speculations and peppered with anecdotes. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: PBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 142 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520071544
- ISBN
- 9780520071544
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 20.89
€ 27.99
€ 20.89
Paperback. Approximately 35% of this third edition containsfresh or updated materialand includes a dynamic website offering further resources and tutorials on cutting edge software. > Num Pages: 326 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables. BIC Classification: PB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 170 x 21. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Publisher
- Continuum Publishing Corporation
- Number of pages
- 311
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781441156884
- ISBN
- 9781441156884
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.98
€ 37.99
€ 29.98