A History of Mathematics

Publisher: Pearson Education LimitedAuthor(s): Victor KatzNumber of pages: 948Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 220 x 280 x 37Cover type: Paperback...

Reducere. This book is ideal for a junior or senior level course in the history of mathematics for mathematics majors intending to become teachers. This titl...

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Reducere. The history of pi, says the author, though a small part of the history of mathematics, is nevertheless a mirror of the history of man. Petr Beckman...

Reducere. Making up Numbers: A History of Invention in Mathematics offers a detailed but accessible account of a wide range of mathematical ideas. Starting w...

Reducere. Making up Numbers: A History of Invention in Mathematics offers a detailed but accessible account of a wide range of mathematical ideas. Starting w...

Reducere. Advertisements for the wildly popular game of Sudoku often feature the reassuring words, "no mathematical knowledge required." In fact, the only sk...

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Reducere. "A carefully reasoned history of astronomy ... clearly the work of a man who loved his subject." -- The Times (London) Literary Supplement.Few hist...

DescriptionHow our understanding of calculus has evolved over more than three centuries, how this has shaped the way it is taught in the classroom,...

Reducere. To Infinity and Beyond explores the idea of infinity in mathematics and art. Eli Maor examines the role of infinity, as well as its cultural impact...

Reducere. Is infinity a valid mathematical property or a meaningless abstraction? The nineteenth-century mathematical genius Georg Cantor's answer to this qu...

Reducere. This informative survey chronicles the process of abstraction that ultimately led to the axiomatic formulation of the abstract notion of group. Han...

Drawing on the past 400 years of history, Susan D. Jones and Peter A. Koolmees present the first global history of veterinary medicine and animal h...

Performing Math tells the history of expectations for math communication--and the conversations about math hatred and math anxiety that occurred in...

Reducere. Through the centuries, the intricacies of fluid mechanics -- the study of the laws of motion and fluids in motion -- have occupied many of history'...

Reducere. This is a landmark in science writing that resurrects from the vaults of neglect the polymath Jerome Cardano, a Milanese of the sixteenth century. ...

Publisher: Institute of Physics PublishingAuthor(s): Jim (The History of Physics Group of the IOP, UK) GrozierIllustration(s): With figures in colo...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Francois JacobNumber of pages: 376Collection: Princeton Science LibraryPublication date: 2022Dimens...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Allan A. SchoenherrIn this comprehensive and abundantly illustrated book, Allan A. Schoenherr describes the natural history...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Michel MorangeTranslator: Joseph MuiseNumber of pages: 448Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 152 x 2...

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Reducere. Noboru Hirota has produced a major historical analysis of how the field of chemistry has evolved over centuries. Spanning more than eight hundred p...

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Yuval Noah Harari's bestselling phenomenon now in a beautifully packaged new special edition. Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old.

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University PressAuthor(s): Rens BodIllustration(s): 11 Illustrations, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and whiteTra...

Why do we see the world the way we do? An unusual history of sight across 500 million years.Publisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): Susan Denham...

100, 000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. In Sapiens, Dr Yuval Noah Harari spans the whole of human history, from the ver...

The human stories behind disease, plagues and epidemics and their deadly impact through history.

Reducere. DescriptionA HISTORY OF ORTHOPEDICS portrays the beginning of orthopedic surgery from ancient times to the current era. It follows the gradual deve...

Down's Syndrome is a mental disability with very distinctive characteristics. David Wright looks at the care and treatment of Down's sufferers - de...

Reducere. Large Format for easy reading. Candles are used as the theme for a series of lectures given to children at the Royal Institute in London, the first...

Reducere. From "one of the master naturalists of our time" (American Scientist), a fascinating exploration of what seashells reveal about biology, evolution,...

Publisher: Pan MacmillanAuthor(s): Dr Becky SmethurstPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 233 x 25Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farmecul lect...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): James PoskettNumber of pages: 464Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 175 x 242 x 38Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

Weaving together intellectual history, philosophy, and social studies, this book offers an appraisal of the history of science and the nature of th...

Michel Morange updates the history of molecular biology at a moment when scientists are making big strides in genetic engineering and exploring new...

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Paul CraddockNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 163 x 244 x 34Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction and A New York Times Notable Book of 2018. Our understanding of the `tree of life', with powe...

As featured in The New York Times Magazine, and on an upcoming PBS documentary series: the surprising and important story of how humans gained what...

Reducere. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Published more than two decades ago to great critical acclaim and commercial success, A Brief History of Time has beco...

During the long twentieth century, explorers went in unprecedented numbers to the hottest, coldest, and highest points on the globe. Taking us from...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Christopher KempIllustration(s): 12 color plates, 21 halftonesNumber of pages: 232Publication ...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Britt BunyardIllustration(s): 187 color photos + 42 b/w illus. 36 maps.Number of pages: 288Collecti...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen George Shoobridge Carr (1837-1914) wrote his Synopsis of Elementary Results he intended it as an aid to students preparing for degr...

How babies have been fed from antiquity to modern times and why it matters.Illustrations: 80 Illustrations, unspecified

Contributor(s): Author: Yuval Noah HarariOfficial U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Yuval Noah Harari...

Reducere. One of the world's most beloved writers and bestselling author of One Summer takes his ultimate journey--into the most intriguing and intractable q...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen a titanic explosion ripped through the Number Four reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant in 1986, spewing flames and chunks of bur...

Reducere. Over the past seventy years, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, has evolved from a virtually unknown and little-use...

This book presents a history of differential equations, both ordinary and partial, as well as the calculus of variations, from the origins of the s...

Reducere. Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination - John Dewey In A History of Science, Mary Cruse takes readers on a fa...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robert JungkAuthor: Jungk RobertTranslator: James CleughAn account of the remarkable scientists who discovered that nuclear...

Reducere. This classic MUP text discusses the historical development of science, technology and medicine in Western Europe and North America from the Renaiss...

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From crowded train stations to quiet woods, and from city centers to our own back gardens, birds remind us that nature is everywhere. As children w...

The first fully illustrated history of the chemical elements.Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Philip BallIllustration(s): 192 Illustrations...

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An enthralling narrative journey through the history and geography of Mars by an award-winning writer, geologist and geophysicist.Publisher: Elliot...

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Connecting laboratory research, clinical medicine, social theory, and lived experience, Intolerant Bodies reveals how doctors and patients have com...

Over the last 220 years, society has evolved a universal belief that electricity is 'safe' for humanity and the planet. Scientist and journalist Ar...

"Oatley provides [a] ... history of modern psychology told through the stories of its most important breakthroughs and the men and women who made t...

The Secret History of Here is the story of a single place, a farm in the Scottish Borders. The site on which Alistair Moffat's farm now stands has ...

Reducere. 'Our developing appreciation of the Universe is a triumph of the intelligence, ingenuity and sheer hard work of the many scientists involved in thi...

Reducere. Why have elephants--and our preconceptions about them--been central to so much of human thought? From prehistoric cave drawings in Europe and ancie...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Jimena CanalesIllustration(s): 16 b/w illus.Number of pages: 416Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 1...

Reducere. A companion to such acclaimed works as The Age of Wonder, A Clockwork Universe, and Darwin's Ghosts--a groundbreaking examination of the greatest e...

From man's first exploration of natural materials and their transformations to today's materials science, chemistry has always been the central dis...