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  • Opuscules Mathématiques Opuscules Mathématiques
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    Opuscules Mathématiques

    Ce livre contient une collection de travaux mathématiques de Jean d'Alembert, célèbre scientifique français du XVIIIe siècle. Les sujets abordés incluent les vents, la précession des équinoxes et bien d'autres encore.This work has been selected by...
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  • Mathematische Schriften, Volume 4... Mathematische Schriften, Volume 4...
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    Mathematische Schriften, Volume 4...

    Le quatrième volume des œuvres mathématiques complètes de Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, un mathématicien et philosophe allemand du XVIIe siècle. Ce volume couvre une variété de sujets, y compris la géométrie, l'algèbre et le calcul infinitésimal. Pour les...
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  • Math¿ematik¿e Syntaxis, Volume 1... Math¿ematik¿e Syntaxis, Volume 1...
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    Math¿ematik¿e Syntaxis, Volume 1...

    Une édition trilingue (grecque, latine et française) de l'œuvre mathématique de Claudius Ptolemaeus, un mathématicien, astronome et géographe de l'Antiquité. Cette édition contient des notes et des commentaires de Jean B. J. Delambre et de Nicolas B...
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  • Geschichte der Elementar-Mathematik. Zweiter Band. Geschichte der Elementar-Mathematik. Zweiter Band.
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    Geschichte der Elementar-Mathematik. Zweiter Band.

    Dieser zweite Band der 'Geschichte der Elementar-Mathematik' beschäftigt sich mit der Entwicklung der Mathematik im antiken Griechenland und im Mittelalter. Dabei werden sowohl die Mathematiker selbst als auch ihre Werke und Leistungen ausführlich...
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  • Proklos Über Die Petita Und Axiomata Bei Euklid Proklos Über Die Petita Und Axiomata Bei Euklid
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    Proklos Über Die Petita Und Axiomata Bei Euklid

    Dieses Buch bietet eine umfassende Analyse von Proklos' Schriften über die Petita und Axiomata bei Euklid. Es zeigt auf, wie Proklos die Grundlagen der Geometrie weiterentwickelt hat und wie seine Arbeit die Mathematik beeinflusst hat. Das Buch richtet...
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  • A Brief History of Mathematics A Brief History of Mathematics
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    A Brief History of Mathematics

    Fink offers a comprehensive and authoritative history of mathematics, tracing its evolution from ancient civilizations to the modern era. With clear explanations and examples, Fink explores the major mathematical concepts and theorems that have shaped...
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  • Mathematische Annalen; Volume 6 Mathematische Annalen; Volume 6
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    Mathematische Annalen; Volume 6

    This book is a collection of research papers published in the prestigious journal Mathematische Annalen. It features groundbreaking work by prominent mathematicians such as David Hilbert and Albert Einstein, spanning topics from geometry to number theory...
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  • Solutions of the Cambridge Problems Solutions of the Cambridge Problems
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    Solutions of the Cambridge Problems

    This book provides detailed solutions to the challenging mathematical problems presented by the University of Cambridge between 1800 and 1820. Written by an experienced mathematician, this work is an important resource for students and educators alike...
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  • Mathematische Annalen; Volume 29 Mathematische Annalen; Volume 29
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    Mathematische Annalen; Volume 29

    Mathematische Annalen is a scientific journal dedicated to mathematics published by Springer-Verlag. This book is a compilation of articles published in Mathematische Annalen from the years 1869 to 1949, written by some of the most prominent...
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  • Traité De Métrologie Ancienne Et Moderne Traité De Métrologie Ancienne Et Moderne
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    Traité De Métrologie Ancienne Et Moderne

    En quoi consistait la métrologie dans l'Antiquité ? Comment mesure-t-on les poids et les mesures dans les différents pays du monde ? Quels sont les signes numériques employés dans les manuscrits et les inscriptions ? Autant de questions auxquelles répond...
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  • Oeuvres De Fermat Oeuvres De Fermat
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    Oeuvres De Fermat

    Une collection d'œuvres écrites par Pierre de Fermat, mathématicien français du XVIIe siècle.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the...
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  • Historical Introduction to Mathematical Literature Historical Introduction to Mathematical Literature
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    Historical Introduction to Mathematical Literature

    Gain insight into the world of mathematical literature with this informative guide. Published in 1916, this book covers the history and development of mathematics, as well as the major themes and trends in mathematical literature up to that time. An...
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  • Scritti Scritti
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    Scritti

    Scritti Il Liber Abbaci is a collection of mathematical texts by Leonardo Fibonacci, the Italian mathematician who popularized the use of the Hindu-Arabic numeral system. The collection includes Fibonacci's most famous work, Liber Abaci, as well as other...
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  • The Hindu-Arabic Numerals The Hindu-Arabic Numerals
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    The Hindu-Arabic Numerals

    The Hindu-Arabic Numerals are the foundation of modern mathematics and scientific notation. In this comprehensive volume, David Eugene Smith and Louis Charles Karpinski trace the history and development of these numerals from ancient India to their...
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  • Oeuvres Complètes En Français Oeuvres Complètes En Français
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    Oeuvres Complètes En Français

    Ce livre est une collection des œuvres complètes du mathématicien suisse Leonhard Euler, qui a travaillé au 18ème siècle. Euler a fait des contributions importantes à de nombreux domaines des mathématiques, tels que l'analyse, la théorie des graphes, la...
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  • Fibonacci and Lucas Numbers with Applications, Volume 1
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    Fibonacci and Lucas Numbers with Applications, Volume 1

    Praise for the First Edition “ …beautiful and well worth the reading … with many exercises and a good bibliography, this book will fascinate both students and teachers.” Mathematics Teacher Fibonacci and Lucas Numbers with Applications, Volume I,...
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  • Introduction to Cultural Mathematics
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    Introduction to Cultural Mathematics

    INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL MATHEMATICS Challenges readers to think creatively about mathematics and ponder its role in their own daily lives Cultural mathematics, or ethnomathematics as it is also known, studies the relationship between mathematics and...
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  • The Frontier
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    The Frontier

    "Casti Tours offers the most spectacular vistas of modern appliedmathematics."-- NatureMathematical modeling is about rules--the rules of reality. RealityRules explores the syntax and semantics of the language in whichthese rules are written, the...
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  • The Fundamentals
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    The Fundamentals

    "Casti Tours offers the most spectacular vistas of modern applied mathematics" a Nature Mathematical modeling is about rulesa the rules of reality. Reality Rules explores the syntax and semantics of the language in which these rules are written, the...
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  • Beyond Reason
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    Beyond Reason

    A mind-bending excursion to the limits of science and mathematics Are some scientific problems insoluble? In Beyond Reason, internationally acclaimed math and science author A. K. Dewdney answers this question by examining eight insurmountable...
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  • Ponderables  Mathematics
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    Ponderables Mathematics

    Here is the updated essential guide to mathematics, an authoritative reference book and timeline that explores the work of history's greatest mathematicians. These include the teasing genius of Pierre de Fermat, who said he knew the answers but rarely...
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  • The Proof Stage
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    The Proof Stage

    How playwrights from Alfred Jarry and Samuel Beckett to Tom Stoppard and Simon McBurney brought the power of abstract mathematics to the human stage.The discovery of alternate geometries, paradoxes of the infinite, incompleteness, and chaos theory...
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    Vector
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    Vector

    'The story I'll tell here is about the evolution of the way we humans record and make sense of all the data that swirl around us...'Vector takes readers on an extraordinary 5000-year journey through the human imagination. The stars of this book, vectors...
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  • Do Plants Know Math?
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    Do Plants Know Math?

    A breathtakingly illustrated look at botanical spirals and the scientists who puzzled over them.Charles Darwin was driven to distraction by plant spirals, growing so exasperated that he once begged a friend to explain the mystery 'if you wish to...
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  • The Irrationals
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    The Irrationals

    An entertaining and enlightening history of irrational numbers, from ancient Greece to the twenty-first century.The ancient Greeks discovered them, but it wasn't until the nineteenth century that irrational numbers were properly understood and...
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  • The World Itself
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    The World Itself

    There is a wonderfully weird but real world out there, and we are a part of it. It is time for physics to take life seriously.Can we ever truly comprehend the universe before we fully understand consciousness and the wonders, and limits, of the mind? Ulf...
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  • Ponderables - Mathematics
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    Ponderables - Mathematics

    Legend has it that the first magic square, where all lines and diagonals add up to the same figure, was revealed more than 2,000 years ago when a river turtle appeared to have ancient Chinese numerals inscribed on sections of its shell.Patterns are...
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    More Joy of Mathematics

    Now Pappas has done it again, or rather, has done more! The pages of MORE JOY OF MATHEMATICS spill over with ideas, puzzles, games from all over the world, historic background, exciting graphics and up-to-the-minute math breakthrough. Readers will find...
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  • Pentagons and Pentagrams
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    Pentagons and Pentagrams

    A fascinating exploration of the pentagon and its role in various culturesThe pentagon and its close cousin, the pentagram, have inspired individuals for the last two and half millennia, from mathematicians and philosophers to artists and naturalists...
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  • Ten Great Ideas about Chance
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    Ten Great Ideas about Chance

    A fascinating account of the breakthrough ideas that transformed probability and statisticsIn the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, gamblers and mathematicians transformed the idea of chance from a mystery into the discipline of probability, setting...
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  • The Secret Formula
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    The Secret Formula

    The legendary Renaissance math duel that ushered in the modern age of algebraThe Secret Formula tells the story of two Renaissance mathematicians whose jealousies, intrigues, and contentious debates led to the discovery of a formula for the solution of...
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  • The Mathematics of Secrets
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    The Mathematics of Secrets

    Explaining the mathematics of cryptographyThe Mathematics of Secrets takes readers on a fascinating tour of the mathematics behind cryptography-the science of sending secret messages. Using a wide range of historical anecdotes and real-world examples,...
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  • Ptolemy's Philosophy
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    Ptolemy's Philosophy

    The Greco-Roman mathematician Claudius Ptolemy is one of the most significant figures in the history of science. He is remembered today for his astronomy, but his philosophy is almost entirely lost to history. This groundbreaking book is the first to...
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  • The Doctrine of Triangles
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    The Doctrine of Triangles

    The Doctrine of Triangles offers an interdisciplinary history of trigonometry that spans four centuries, starting in 1550 and concluding in the 1900s. Glen Van Brummelen tells the story of trigonometry as it evolved from an instrument for understanding...
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  • Gamma
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    Gamma

    Among the many constants that appear in mathematics, ?, e, and i are the most familiar. Following closely behind is ?,, or gamma, a constant that arises in many mathematical areas yet maintains a profound sense of mystery. In a tantalizing blend of...
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  • Reverse Mathematics
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    Reverse Mathematics

    This book presents reverse mathematics to a general mathematical audience for the first time. Reverse mathematics is a new field that answers some old questions. In the two thousand years that mathematicians have been deriving theorems from axioms, it...
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  • Music by the Numbers
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    Music by the Numbers

    How music has influenced mathematics, physics, and astronomy from ancient Greece to the twentieth centuryMusic is filled with mathematical elements, the works of Bach are often said to possess a math-like logic, and Igor Stravinsky said "musical form is...
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  • Newton the Alchemist
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    Newton the Alchemist

    A book that finally demystifies Newton's experiments in alchemyWhen Isaac Newton's alchemical papers surfaced at a Sotheby's auction in 1936, the quantity and seeming incoherence of the manuscripts were shocking. No longer the exemplar of Enlightenment...
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  • Finding Fibonacci
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    Finding Fibonacci

    A compelling firsthand account of Keith Devlin's ten-year quest to tell Fibonacci's story In 2000, Keith Devlin set out to research the life and legacy of the medieval mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, popularly known as Fibonacci, whose book Liber abbaci...
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  • Games for Your Mind
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    Games for Your Mind

    A lively and engaging look at logic puzzles and their role in recreation, mathematics, and philosophy.Logic puzzles were first introduced to the public by Lewis Carroll in the late nineteenth century and have been popular ever since. Games like Sudoku...
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  • Complexities
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    Complexities

    Sophie Germain taught herself mathematics by candlelight, huddled in her bedclothes. Ada Byron Lovelace anticipated aspects of general-purpose digital computing by more than a century. Cora Ratto de Sadosky advanced messages of tolerance and equality...
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    An Imaginary Tale
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    An Imaginary Tale

    Today complex numbers have such widespread practical use--from electrical engineering to aeronautics--that few people would expect the story behind their derivation to be filled with adventure and enigma. In An Imaginary Tale, Paul Nahin tells the...
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  • Mathematics and Art
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    Mathematics and Art

    This is a cultural history of mathematics and art, from antiquity to the present. Mathematicians and artists have long been on a quest to understand the physical world they see before them and the abstract objects they know by thought alone. Taking...
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