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History of Numerical Analysis from the 16th through the 19th Century
Inbunden, 1977
1095 kr
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In this book I have attempted to trace the development of numerical analysis during the period in which the foundations of the modern theory were being laid. To do this I have had to exercise a certain amount of selectivity in choosing and in rejecting both authors and papers. I have rather …
History of Non-Euclidean Geometry
Evolution of the Concept of a Geometric Space
Inbunden, 1988
1752 kr
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The Russian edition of this book appeared in 1976 on the hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the historic day of February 23, 1826, when LobaeevskiI delivered his famous lecture on his discovery of non-Euclidean geometry. The importance of the discovery of non-Euclidean geometry goes far beyond the …
Kepler’s Physical Astronomy
Inbunden, 1987
1098 kr
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Kepler's Physical Astronomy is an account of Kepler's reformulation of astronomy as a physical science, and of his successful use of (incorrect) physics as a guide in his astronomical discoveries. It presents the only reliable account of the internal logic of Kepler's so-called first and second …
Joseph Liouville 1809–1882
Master of Pure and Applied Mathematics
Inbunden, 1990
2555 kr
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Joseph Liouville was the most important French mathematician in the gen- eration between Galois and Hermite. This is reflected in the fact that even today all mathematicians know at least one of the more than six theorems named after him and regularly study Liouville's Journal, as the Journal de …
History of Ptolemy’s Star Catalogue
Inbunden, 1989
1643 kr
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Ptolemy's Almagest shares with Euclid's Elements the glory of being the scientific text longest in use. From its conception in the second century up to the late Renaissance, this work determined astronomy as a science. During this time the Almagest was not only a work on astronomy; the subject was …
History of Non-Euclidean Geometry
Evolution of the Concept of a Geometric Space
Häftad, 2012
1752 kr
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The Russian edition of this book appeared in 1976 on the hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the historic day of February 23, 1826, when LobaeevskiI delivered his famous lecture on his discovery of non-Euclidean geometry. The importance of the discovery of non-Euclidean geometry goes far beyond the …
Joseph Liouville 1809–1882
Master of Pure and Applied Mathematics
Häftad, 2013
1530 kr
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Joseph Liouville was the most important French mathematician in the gen- eration between Galois and Hermite. This is reflected in the fact that even today all mathematicians know at least one of the more than six theorems named after him and regularly study Liouville's Journal, as the Journal de …
History of Ptolemy’s Star Catalogue
Häftad, 2011
1752 kr
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Ptolemy's Almagest shares with Euclid's Elements the glory of being the scientific text longest in use. From its conception in the second century up to the late Renaissance, this work determined astronomy as a science. During this time the Almagest was not only a work on astronomy; the subject was …
History of the Calculus of Variations from the 17th through the 19th Century
Häftad, 2011
1204 kr
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The calculus of variations is a subject whose beginning can be precisely dated. It might be said to begin at the moment that Euler coined the name calculus of variations but this is, of course, not the true moment of inception of the subject. It would not have been unreasonable if I had gone back …
Mathematical Astronomy in Copernicus’ De Revolutionibus
In Two Parts
Av N.M. Swerdlow, O. Neugebauer
Häftad, 2012
1316 kr
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When I first laid out the framework for A History of Ancient Mathe matical Astronomy, I intended to carry the discussion down to the last applications of Greek astronomical methodology, i. e. Copernicus, Brahe, and Kepler. But as the work proceeded, it became evident that this plan was much too …
Astronomy of Levi ben Gerson (1288–1344)
A Critical Edition of Chapters 1–20 with Translation and Commentary
Häftad, 2011
986 kr
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It would seem that S. Munk was the first modern scholar to draw attention to the significance of Levi ben Gerson's Astronomy, surely the most original work on astronomy written in Hebrew in the Middle Ages. Munk (1859, p. 500) called for a specialist to undertake a serious study of this work, but …
Kepler’s Physical Astronomy
Häftad, 2012
1204 kr
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Kepler's Physical Astronomy is an account of Kepler's reformulation of astronomy as a physical science, and of his successful use of (incorrect) physics as a guide in his astronomical discoveries. It presents the only reliable account of the internal logic of Kepler's so-called first and second …
Evolution of Dynamics: Vibration Theory from 1687 to 1742
Vibration Theory from 1687 to 1742
Av J. T. Cannon, S. Dostrovsky
Häftad, 2011
823 kr
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In this study we are concerned with Vibration Theory and the Problem of Dynamics during the half century that followed the publication of Newton's Principia. The relationship that existed between these subject!! is obscured in retrospection for it is now almost impossible not to view (linear) …
Prehistory of the Theory of Distributions
Av J. Lützen
Häftad, 2011
878 kr
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I first learned the theory of distributions from Professor Ebbe Thue Poulsen in an undergraduate course at Aarhus University. Both his lectures and the textbook, Topological Vector Spaces, Distributions and Kernels by F. Treves, used in the course, opened my eyes to the beauty and abstract …
Zermelo’s Axiom of Choice
Its Origins, Development, and Influence
Av G.H. Moore
Häftad, 2011
551 kr
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This book grew out of my interest in what is common to three disciplines: mathematics, philosophy, and history. The origins of Zermelo's Axiom of Choice, as well as the controversy that it engendered, certainly lie in that intersection. Since the time of Aristotle, mathematics has been concerned …
History of Combinatorial Group Theory
A Case Study in the History of Ideas
Av B. Chandler, W. Magnus
Häftad, 2011
932 kr
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One of the pervasive phenomena in the history of science is the development of independent disciplines from the solution or attempted solutions of problems in other areas of science. In the Twentieth Century, the creation of specialties witqin the sciences has accelerated to the point where a large …
I. J. Bienaymé
Statistical Theory Anticipated
Av C. C. Heyde, E. Seneta
Häftad, 2012
551 kr
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Our interest in 1. J. Bienayme was kindled by the discovery of his paper of 1845 on simple branching processes as a model for extinction of family names. In this work he announced the key criticality theorem 28 years before it was rediscovered in incomplete form by Galton and Watson (after whom the …
History of Numerical Analysis from the 16th through the 19th Century
Häftad, 2012
1095 kr
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In this book I have attempted to trace the development of numerical analysis during the period in which the foundations of the modern theory were being laid. To do this I have had to exercise a certain amount of selectivity in choosing and in rejecting both authors and papers. I have rather …
