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  • Spherical Geometry in the Eighteenth Century I

    Euler, Lagrange and Lambert

    Edited by Renzo Caddeo, Athanase Papadopoulos ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This volume is the first English edition, with commentaries and introductory material, of the writings on spherical geometry by Leonhard Euler, Joseph-Louis Lagrange and Johann Heinrich Lambert. The book is divided into two parts. The first part contains essays related the works by Euler, Lagrange and Lambert on spherical geometry. The goal of these essays is to include these works in the ... Read more

    $141.99 CAD

  • Mathematical Geography in the Eighteenth Century: Euler, Lagrange and Lambert

    Edited by Renzo Caddeo, Athanase Papadopoulos ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This volume presents the beautiful memoirs of Euler, Lagrange and Lambert on geography, translated into English and put into perspective through explanatory and historical essays as well as commentaries and mathematical notes. These works had a major impact on the development of the differential geometry of surfaces and they deserve to be studied, not only as historical documents, but most of all ... Read more

    $167.99 CAD

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  • The Great Mathematicians

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    by Raymond Flood, Robin Wilson ...
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  • A History of Mathematics

    by Carl B. Boyer, Uta C. Merzbach ...
    The updated new edition of the classic and comprehensive guide to the history of mathematicsFor 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’s relationship with numbers, shapes, and patterns. This revised edition features up-to-date coverage of topics such as Fermat’s Last Theorem and the ... Read more

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  • Why Beauty Is Truth

    The History of Symmetry

    by Ian Stewart ...
    At the heart of relativity theory, quantum mechanics, string theory, and much of modern cosmology lies one concept: symmetry. In Why Beauty Is Truth, world-famous mathematician Ian Stewart narrates the history of the emergence of this remarkable area of study. Stewart introduces us to such characters as the Renaissance Italian genius, rogue, scholar, and gambler Girolamo Cardano, who stole the ... Read more

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    by Eli Maor ...
    Series series Princeton Science Library
    The interest earned on a bank account, the arrangement of seeds in a sunflower, and the shape of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis are all intimately connected with the mysterious number e. In this informal and engaging history, Eli Maor portrays the curious characters and the elegant mathematics that lie behind the number. Designed for a reader with only a modest mathematical background, this ... Read more

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    by Morris Kline ...
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    Man's New Dialogue with Nature

    by Ilya Prigogine, Isabelle Stengers ...
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    by William Hosch ...
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