A History of Mathematics

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

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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Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co IncAuthor(s): Anthony Robert (Founder of Rees Consulting AB, Stockholm, Sweden) ReesNumber of pages: 514P...

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

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

On this blue planet, long before pterodactyls took to the skies and tyrannosaurs prowled the continents, tiny green organisms populated the ancient...

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

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The author of this history of mankind's increasingly successful attempts to understand, to measure and to map the Earth's gravity field (commonly k...

This volume offers a comprehensive historical survey of medicine in sixteenth-century Europe and examines both medical theories and practices withi...

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

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...

Reducere. What is algebra? For some, it is an abstract language of x's and y's. For mathematics majors and professional mathematicians, it is a world of axio...

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

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

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

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Steven A. FrankIllustration(s): 55 b/w illus.Number of pages: 400Publication date: 2022Dimensions: ...

Suggesting that the replacement of an animistic worldview with a mechanistic one has led humans to deny their animality, Flight from Grace calls on...

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. This is a detailed history of one of the most important and dramatic episodes in modern science, recounted from the novel vantage point of the dawn...

John C. Kendrew (1917-1997) was a pioneer in structural biology and a catalyst for the emergence of molecular biology in the second half of the twe...

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...

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

Winner of the Frank Watson Prize in Scottish History, 2011 The relationship between science and civil society is essential to our understanding of ...

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Contributor(s): Author: Hans-Jorg RheinbergerIn this powerful work of conceptual and analytical originality, the author argues for the primacy of t...

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...

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

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

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One of the most controversial, cutting-edge ideas in cosmology-the possibility that there exist multiple parallel universes-in fact has a long hist...

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

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Steve BrusatteNumber of pages: 528Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 236 x 164 x 39Cover type: HardbackRedescoper...

Since ancient times, humans have been engaged in a continual quest to find meaning in and make sense of sights and events in the night sky. Culture...

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Contributor(s): Author: Joanne SouzaAuthor: Paul M. BinghamA new biological theory of human uniqueness and theory of everything based in human evol...

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...

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

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

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

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Clifford ConnerWe all know the history of science that we learned from grade school textbooks: How Galileo used his telesco...

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Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Henry GeeNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 136 x 188 x 28Cover type: Hardbac...

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

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Reducere. Until the publication of this book, historians had largely neglected the effects of technology on the course of human history. Political, economic,...

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

DescriptionThis official NASA history chronicles the behind-the-scenes conflicts and cooperation during the Apollo expeditions. It shows how the sp...

Reducere. This volume contains new editions of two books which have been available only sporadically in the decades since their publication. R. Pearson's Pas...

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

DescriptionCoal, gas, and oil have powered our societies for hundreds of years. But the pace at which we use them changed dramatically in the twent...

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...

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

Reducere. "Kings Dethroned" is a history of the evolution of astronomy from the Roman Empire to the early twentieth century. From Copernicus to Einstein, thi...

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...

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 ...

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...

How have our emotions shaped the course of human history? And how have our experience and understanding of emotions evolved with us?Publisher: Harp...

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