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Most Honourable Remembrance
The Life and Work of Thomas Bayes
Inbunden, 2003
1742 kr
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I ?nd it impossible to write a preface to this work, without discovering a little of the enthusiasm which I have contracted from an attention to it. Joseph Priestley. The History and Present State of Electricity. It is generally considered bad form in writing, unless on matters autob- …
Exploring the Limits of Preclassical Mechanics
A Study of Conceptual Development in Early Modern Science: Free Fall and Compounded Motion in the Work of Descartes, Galileo and Beeckman
Av Peter Damerow, Gideon Freudenthal m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
1532 kr
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The question of when and how the basic concepts that characterize modern science arose in Western Europe has long been central to the history of science. This book examines the transition from Renaissance engineering and philosophy of nature to classical mechanics oriented on the central concept of …
Arithmetic of Infinitesimals
Av John Wallis
Inbunden, 2004
1641 kr
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The book is the first English translation of John Wallis's Arithmetica Infinitorum (1656), a key text on the seventeenth-century development of the calculus. Accompanied with annotations and an introductory essay, the translation makes Wallis's work fully available for the first time to modern …
Conflicts Between Generalization, Rigor, and Intuition
Number Concepts Underlying the Development of Analysis in 17th-19th Century France and Germany
Inbunden, 2005
1641 kr
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This volume is, as may be readily apparent, the fruit of many years’ labor in archives and libraries, unearthing rare books, researching Nachlässe, and above all, systematic comparative analysis of fecund sources. The work not only demanded much time in preparation, but was also interrupted by …
Geometry of an Art
The History of the Mathematical Theory of Perspective from Alberti to Monge
Inbunden, 2006
3708 kr
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Key Issues ver since the late 1970s when Pia Holdt, a student of mine at the time, and Jed Buchwald, a colleague normally working in another field, made E me aware of how fascinating the history of perspective constructions is, I have wanted to know more. My studies have resulted in the present …
Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts
Manuscripts in the Schøyen Collection: Cuneiform Texts I
Inbunden, 2007
2512 kr
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The sub-collection of mathematical cuneiform texts in the Schøyen Collection makes a substantial addition to the known corpus of such texts. It contains 121 texts, not counting 151 multiplication tables and 53 small weight stones. According to the catalog at the end of the Index of Subjects below, …
Fibonacci’s Liber Abaci
A Translation into Modern English of Leonardo Pisano’s Book of Calculation
Häftad, 2003
992 kr
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First published in 1202, Fibonacci's "Liber abaci" was one of the most important books on mathematics in the Middle Ages, introducing Arabic numerals and methods throughout Europe.Its author, Leonardo Pisano, known today as Fibonacci, was a citizen of Pisa, an active maritime power, with trading …
History of Parametric Statistical Inference from Bernoulli to Fisher, 1713-1935
Av Anders Hald
Inbunden, 2006
1096 kr
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This is a history of parametric statistical inference, written by one of the most important historians of statistics of the 20th century, Anders Hald. This book can be viewed as a follow-up to his two most recent books, although this current text is much more streamlined and contains new analysis …
Thomas Harriot's Artis Analyticae Praxis
An English Translation with Commentary
Av Muriel Seltman, Robert Goulding m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
1096 kr
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The Artis analyticae praxis was published in 1631 in Latin. Until relatively - cently, an English edition would not have been considered necessary since most of the people who might have been expected to be interested in the text would have been able to read it in Latin. That is no longer the case …
Fibonacci's De Practica Geometrie
Inbunden, 2007
1532 kr
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Leonardo da Pisa, perhaps better known as Fibonacci (ca. 1170 – ca. 1240), selected the most useful parts of Greco-Arabic geometry for the book known as De practica geometrie. Beginning with the definitions and constructions found early on in Euclid’s Elements, Fibonacci instructed his reader how …
Rise and Development of the Theory of Series up to the Early 1820s
Inbunden, 2007
1096 kr
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The theory of series in the 17th and 18th centuries poses several interesting problems to historians. Indeed, mathematicians of the time derived num- ous results that range from the binomial theorem to the Taylor formula, from the power series expansions of elementary functions to trigonometric …
Scientific Correspondence of H.A. Lorentz
Volume I
Av A.J. Kox
Inbunden, 2008
2185 kr
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This volume presents a selection of 434 letters from and to the Dutch physicist and Nobel Prize winner Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1853–1928), covering the period from 1883 until a few months before his death in February 1928. The sheer size of the available correspondence (approximately 6000 letters …
Granting the Seasons
The Chinese Astronomical Reform of 1280, With a Study of Its Many Dimensions and a Translation of its Records
Av Nathan Sivin
Inbunden, 2008
1096 kr
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China’s most sophisticated system of computational astronomy was created for a Mongol emperor who could neither read nor write Chinese, to celebrate victory over China after forty years of devastating war. This book explains how and why, and reconstructs the observatory and the science that made it …
Survey of the Almagest
With Annotation and New Commentary by Alexander Jones
Av Olaf Pedersen, Alexander Jones
Inbunden, 2010
1749 kr
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The Almagest, by the Greek astronomer and mathematician Ptolemy, is the most important surviving treatise on early mathematical astronomy, offering historians valuable insight into the astronomy and mathematics of the ancient world.Pedersen's 1974 publication, A Survey of the Almagest, is the most …
History of the Central Limit Theorem
From Classical to Modern Probability Theory
Av Hans Fischer
Inbunden, 2010
1858 kr
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This study discusses the history of the central limit theorem and related probabilistic limit theorems from about 1810 through 1950. In this context the book also describes the historical development of analytical probability theory and its tools, such as characteristic functions or moments. The …
Noether Theorems
Invariance and Conservation Laws in the Twentieth Century
Inbunden, 2010
933 kr
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In 1915 and 1916 Emmy Noether was asked by Felix Klein and David Hilbert to assist them in understanding issues involved in any attempt to formulate a general theory of relativity, in particular the new ideas of Einstein. She was consulted particularly over the difficult issue of the form a law of …
Lengths, Widths, Surfaces
A Portrait of Old Babylonian Algebra and Its Kin
Av Jens Høyrup
Inbunden, 2002
1914 kr
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In this examination of the Babylonian cuneiform "algebra" texts, based on a detailed investigation of the terminology and discursive organization of the texts, Jens Høyrup proposes that the traditional interpretation must be rejected. The texts turn out to speak not of pure numbers, but of the …
Fibonacci’s Liber Abaci
A Translation into Modern English of Leonardo Pisano’s Book of Calculation
Inbunden, 2002
1260 kr
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First published in 1202, Fibonacci's "Liber abaci" was one of the most important books on mathematics in the Middle Ages, introducing Arabic numerals and methods throughout Europe.Its author, Leonardo Pisano, known today as Fibonacci, was a citizen of Pisa, an active maritime power, with trading …
Jan de Witt’s Elementa Curvarum Linearum, Liber Primus
Text, Translation, Introduction, and Commentary by Albert W. Grootendorst
Inbunden, 2000
1260 kr
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This book is an English translation of the first textbook on Analytic Geometry, written in Latin by the Dutch statesman and mathematician Jan de Witt soon after Descartes invented the subject. De Witt (1625-1672) is best known for his work in actuarial mathematics ("Calculation of the Values of …
History of Inverse Probability
From Thomas Bayes to Karl Pearson
Inbunden, 1999
1641 kr
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PRELIMINARY TEXT. DO NOT USE This is a history of the use of Baye's theorem over 150 years, from its discovery by Thomas Bayes to the rise of statistical competitors in the first third of the twentieth century. The new edition examines the development of the fundamental aspects of Bayesian …
Emergence of the Theory of Lie Groups
An Essay in the History of Mathematics 1869–1926
Inbunden, 2000
1967 kr
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This book is both more and less than a history of the theory of Lie groups during the period 1869-1926. No attempt has been made to provide an exhaustive treatment of all aspects of the theory. Instead, I have focused upon its origins and upon the subsequent development of its structural as pects, …
Tantrasaṅgraha of Nīlakaṇṭha Somayājī
Av K. Ramasubramanian, M. S. Sriram
Inbunden, 2011
1096 kr
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Tantrasangraha, composed by the renowned Kerala astronomer Nīlakantha Somayājī (c.1444-1545 AD) ranks along with Āryabhatīya of Āryabhata and Siddhāntaśiromani of Bhāskarācārya as one of the major works which significantly influenced further work on astronomy in India. One of the distinguishing …
Jan de Witt’s Elementa Curvarum Linearum
Liber Secundus
Av Albert W. Grootendorst, Jan Aarts m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
552 kr
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- Following on from the 2000 edition of Jan De Witt’s Elementa Curvarum Linearum, Liber Primus, this book provides the accompanying translation of the second volume of Elementa Curvarum Linearum (Foundations of Curved Lines). One of the first books to be published on Analytic Geometry, it was …
Selected Correspondence of L.E.J. Brouwer
Inbunden, 2011
1163 kr
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L.E.J. Brouwer (1881-1966) is best known for his revolutionary ideas on topology and foundations of mathematics (intuitionism). The present collection contains a mixture of letters; university and faculty correspondence has been included, some of which shed light on the student years, and in …
Cauchy’s Cours d’analyse
An Annotated Translation
Av Robert E. Bradley, C. Edward Sandifer
Inbunden, 2009
1967 kr
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In 1821, Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789-1857) published a textbook, the Cours d’analyse, to accompany his course in analysis at the Ecole Polytechnique. It is one of the most influential mathematics books ever written. Not only did Cauchy provide a workable definition of limits and a means to make …
Between Theory and Observations
Tobias Mayer's Explorations of Lunar Motion, 1751-1755
Inbunden, 2009
1096 kr
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In the 18th century, purely scientific interests as well as the practical necessities of navigation motivated the development of new theories and techniques to accurately describe celestial and lunar motion. "Between Theory and Observations" presents a detailed and accurate account, not to be found …
Most Honourable Remembrance
The Life and Work of Thomas Bayes
Häftad, 2011
1641 kr
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I ?nd it impossible to write a preface to this work, without discovering a little of the enthusiasm which I have contracted from an attention to it. Joseph Priestley. The History and Present State of Electricity. It is generally considered bad form in writing, unless on matters autob- …
Exploring the Limits of Preclassical Mechanics
A Study of Conceptual Development in Early Modern Science: Free Fall and Compounded Motion in the Work of Descartes, Galileo and Beeckman
Av Peter Damerow, Gideon Freudenthal m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
1532 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The question of when and how the basic concepts that characterize modern science arose in Western Europe has long been central to the history of science. This book examines the transition from Renaissance engineering and philosophy of nature to classical mechanics oriented on the central concept of …
Arithmetic of Infinitesimals
Av John Wallis
Häftad, 2010
1641 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The book is the first English translation of John Wallis's Arithmetica Infinitorum (1656), a key text on the seventeenth-century development of the calculus. Accompanied with annotations and an introductory essay, the translation makes Wallis's work fully available for the first time to modern …
Conflicts Between Generalization, Rigor, and Intuition
Number Concepts Underlying the Development of Analysis in 17th-19th Century France and Germany
Häftad, 2010
1641 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This volume is, as may be readily apparent, the fruit of many years’ labor in archives and libraries, unearthing rare books, researching Nachlässe, and above all, systematic comparative analysis of fecund sources. The work not only demanded much time in preparation, but was also interrupted by …
