Matematikens historia

The History of Mathematics: A Source-Based Approach is a comprehensive history of the development of mathematics. This, the first volume of the two-volume set, takes readers from the beginning of counting in prehistory to 1600 and the threshold of...

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Boken ger en översikt av den matematik som möter oss i historien. Begreppsbildningens historia står i förgrunden, men uppmärksamhet har även ägnats primitiva, spontana lösningsmetoder, sådana vi möter dem i egyptisk, babylonisk, grekisk och indisk...

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**The First Ever Maths Book to be a No.1 Bestseller** 'Wonderful ... superb' Daily Mail What makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? Billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? A building rock when its resonant frequency matches a...

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The classic Heath translation, in a completely new layout with plenty of space and generous margins. An affordable but sturdy sewn hardcover student and teacher edition in one volume, with minimal notes and a new index/glossary.

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One of the greatest accomplishments in the history of cryptography occurred in 1940 when a Swedish mathematician broke the German code used for strategic military communications. This is the story of Arne Beurling's wartime achievement.

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Shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2019 A magisterial history of calculus (and the people behind it) from one of the world's foremost mathematicians. This is the captivating story of mathematics' greatest ever idea: calculus. Wit...

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For thousands of years, one scientific puzzle has fascinated and perplexed the greatest philosophers, mathematicians, physicists, and psychologists - why do the moon and sun appear so much larger on the horizon than when high up in the sky? Explor...

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Övningsboken till Matematiken i historien innehåller problem med i regel, fullständiga lösningar. Problemen tillhör vad man kan kalla den finita matematiken, vilket betyder att inga problem med anknytning till gränsvärdesbegreppet tagits med. Prob...

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Responding to widespread interest within cultural studies and social inquiry, this book addresses the question 'what is a mathematical concept?' using a variety of vanguard theories in the humanities and posthumanities. Tapping historical, philoso...

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How our understanding of calculus has evolved over more than three centuries, how this has shaped the way it is taught in the classroom, and why calculus pedagogy needs to change Calculus Reordered takes readers on a remarkable journey through hun...

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This collection of 23 articles is the output of lectures in special sessions on "The History of Theoretical, Material and Computational Mechanics" within the yearly conferences of the GAMM in the years 2010 in Karlsruhe, Germany, 2011 in...

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The classic Heath translation, in a completely new layout with plenty of space and generous margins. An affordable but sturdy student and teacher sewn softcover edition in one volume, with minimal notes and a new index/glossary.

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Kurt Gdel (1906 - 1978) was a logician, mathematician and philosopher. He is regarded as one of the most significant logicians of all time, whose work has had immense impact upon scientific and philosophical thinking in the 20th century. Gdel is b...

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Som kvinnor och afroamerikaner hade de alla odds emot sig. Det här är den otroliga och sanna historien om fyra matematiker på NASA som möjliggjorde de amerikanska framgångarna i rymdkapplöpningen mot Sovjetunionen. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, K...

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This textbook provides an accessible account of the history of abstract algebra, tracing a range of topics in modern algebra and number theory back to their modest presence in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and exploring the impact of i...

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* Exciting exposition integrates history, philosophy, and mathematics * Combines a mathematical analysis of approximation theory with an engaging discussion of the differing philosophical underpinnings behind its development * Appendices containin...

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Historian David E. Rowe captures the rich tapestry of mathematical creativity in this collection of essays from the "Years Ago" column of The Mathematical Intelligencer. With topics ranging from ancient Greek mathematics to modern relati...

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A History of Mathematics, Third Edition , provides students with a solid background in the history of mathematics and focuses on the most important topics for todays elementary, high school, and college curricula. Students will gain a deeper under...

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This brilliantly illustrated tale of reason, insanity, love and truth recounts the story of Bertrand Russell's life. Raised by his paternal grandparents, young Russell was never told the whereabouts of his parents. Driven by a desire for knowledge...

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Prepare to be inspired. Power in Numbers: The Rebel Women of Mathematics is a full-color volume that takes aim at the forgotten influence of women on the development of mathematics over the last two millennia. You'll see each eminent mathematician...

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Als im Jahre 1940 ein schwedischer Mathematiker die Verschl sselung f r die deutsche strategische Milit rkommunikation knackte, war dies eine der gr ten Errungenschaften in der Geschichte der Kryptologie. Die fachlich pr zise Geschichte dieses Ere...

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Articles in this volume are based on talks given at the Gauss-Dirichlet Conference held in Gottingen on June 20-24, 2005. The conference commemorated the 150th anniversary of the death of C.-F. Gauss and the 200th anniversary of the birth of J.-L....

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A little bucket, one-third full, is 8 inches deep, and its upper and lower diameters are 7 inches and 6 inches, respectively. How large is the frog which, jumping into the bucket, causes the water to rise 3 inches? Word problems not unlike this ex...

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The updated new edition of the classic and comprehensive guide to the history of mathematics For more than forty years, A History of Mathematics has been the reference of choice for those looking to learn about the fascinating history of humankind...

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Both classical geometry and modern differential geometry have been active subjects of research throughout the 20th century and lie at the heart of many recent advances in mathematics and physics. The underlying motivating concept for the present b...

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Because we have ten fingers, grouping by ten seems natural, but it has serious shortcomings. Twelve would be better for divisibility, and eight is well suited to repeated halving. Grouping by two, as in binary code, has turned out to have its own ...

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The book presents the winners of the Abel Prize in mathematics for the period 2013-17: Pierre Deligne (2013); Yakov G. Sinai (2014); John Nash Jr. and Louis Nirenberg (2015); Sir Andrew Wiles (2016); and Yves Meyer (2017). The profiles feature aut...

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"In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began."-Albert Einstein The year was 1915, and the...

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A companion publication to the international exhibition "Transcending Tradition: Jewish Mathematicians in German-Speaking Academic Culture", this catalogue explores the working lives and activities of Jewish mathematicians in German-spea...

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Presented as an engaging discourse, this textbook invites readers to delve into the historical origins and uses of geometry. The narrative traces the influence of Euclid's system of geometry, as developed in his classic text The Elements, through ...

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