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  • Freedom in Mathematics

    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book challenges the views put forward by Pierre Cartier, one of the anchors of the famous Bourbaki group, and Cédric Villani, one of the most brilliant mathematicians of his generation, who received the Fields Medal in 2010. Jean Dhombres, mathematician and science historian, and Gerhard Heinzmann, philosopher of science and also a specialist in mathematics engage in a fruitful dialogue with ... Read more

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  • Homage to Evangelista Torricelli’s Opera Geometrica 1644–2024

    Text, Transcription, Commentaries and Selected Essays as New Historical Insights

    Series series History (R0)
    Evangelista Torricelli exemplifies the use the moderns made of the ancients' mathematical methods. Celebrating Evangelista Torricelli's monumental Opera geometrica, this book marks 380 years since its publication (1644-2024). This homage to Torricelli introduces the magnificent major work in Mechanics and Mathematics of a brilliant Archimedean–and–Galilean scientist to modern readers.Opera ... Read more

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  • Finding Zero

    A Mathematician's Odyssey to Uncover the Origins of Numbers

    by Amir D. Aczel ...
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    Proofs, Probabilities, Possibilities, and Sets

    This book is designed to explain the technical ideas that are taken for granted in much contemporary philosophical writing. Notions like 'denumerability', 'modal scope distinction', 'Bayesian conditionalization', and 'logical completeness' are usually only elucidated deep within difficult specialist texts. By offering simple explanations that by-pass much irrelevant and boring detail, ... Read more

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  • The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011

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    Series series The Best Writing on Mathematics
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  • Five Equations That Changed the World

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  • Professor Stewart's Casebook of Mathematical Mysteries

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