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  • Averroes' Physics

    A Turning Point in Medieval Natural Philosophy

    by Ruth Glasner ...
    Ruth Glasner presents an illuminating reappraisal of Averroes' physics. Glasner is the first scholar to base her interpretation on the full range of Averroes' writings, including texts that are extant only in Hebrew manuscripts and have not been hitherto studied. She reveals that Averroes changed his interpretation of the basic notions of physics - the structure of corporeal reality and the ... Read more

    $95.99 CAD

  • Alfonso's Rectifying the Curved

    ​A Fourteenth-Century Hebrew Geometrical-Philosophical Treatise

    by Ruth Glasner, Avinoam Baraness ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This volume offers a new English translation, introduction, and detailed commentary on Sefer Meyasher 'Aqov, (The Rectifying of the Curved), a 14th-century Hebrew treatise on the foundation of geometry. The book is a mixture of two genres: philosophical discussion and formal, Euclidean-type geometrical writing. A central issue is the use of motion and superposition in geometry, which is analyzed ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

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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

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Art of Philosophizing

    And Other Essays

    by Bertrand Russell ...
    Three essays on mathematics, logic, and philosophy from the Noble Prize–winning author of A History of Western Philosophy.The essays in this little volume, published here for the first time in book form, were written by Bertrand Russell during the Second World War when he was less concerned with the stormy issues of nuclear warfare and the containment of Communist aggression and more with "the art ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Art of the Infinite

    The Pleasures of Mathematics

    by Robert Kaplan, Ellen Kaplan ...
    A witty, conversational, and accessible tour of math's profoundest mysteries.Mathematical symbols, for mathematicians, store worlds of meaning, leap continents and centuries. But we need not master symbols to grasp the magnificent abstractions they represent, and to which all art aspires. Through language, anyone can come to delight in the works of mathematical art, which are among our kind's ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • How to Think About God

    by Mortimer J. Adler ...
    Dr. Adler, in his discussion, extends and modernizes the argument for the existence of God developed by Aristotle and Aquinas. Without relying on faith, mysticism, or science (none of which, according to Dr. Adler, can prove or disprove the existence of God), he uses a rationalist argument to lead the reader to a point where he or she can see that the existence of God is not necessarily dependent ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Metaphysics of Evolution

    Evolutionary Theory in Light of First Principles

    by Fr. Chad Ripperger ...
    In his encyclical Humani Generis, Pope Pius XII stressed the importance of preserving the traditional Catholic approach to philosophy. In his work The Metaphysics of Evolution, Fr. Chad Ripperger demonstrates that the theory of evolution is incompatible with the metaphysics of the Catholic tradition. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The Liar Paradox and the Towers of Hanoi

    The 10 Greatest Math Puzzles of All Time

    by Marcel Danesi ...
    A walk through history's most mind-boggling puzzlesEver since the Sphinx asked his legendary riddle of Oedipus, riddles, conundrums, and puzzles of all sizes have kept humankind perplexed and amused. The Liar Paradox and the Towers of Hanoi takes die-hard puzzle mavens on a tour of the world's most enduringly intriguing braintwisters, from K?nigsberg's Bridges and the Hanoi Towers to Fibonacci's ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mathematical Thought From Ancient to Modern Times, Volume 1

    by Morris Kline ...
    This comprehensive history traces the development of mathematical ideas and the careers of the men responsible for them. Volume 1 looks at the disciplines origins in Babylon and Egypt, the creation of geometry and trigonometry by the Greeks, and the role of mathematics in the medieval and early modern periods. Volume 2 focuses on calculus, the rise of analysis in the 19th century, and the number ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • How to Prove There Is a God

    Mortimer J. Adler's Writings and Thoughts About God

    by Mortimer Adler ...
    One of the great tasks of Mortimer Adler’s illustrious life was his search for a watertight proof of the existence of God. Adler believed that his search had been successful.Adler spent years studying the classic proofs of God’s existence, especially Aquinas’s Five Ways, and found shortcomings in all of them, as conventionally understood. But he thought that some of them contained ideas which, if ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men

    A Cultural History

    by Paolo Zellini ...
    Is mathematics a discovery or an invention? Do numbers truly exist? What sort of reality do formulas describe?The complexity of mathematics - its abstract rules and obscure symbols - can seem very distant from the everyday. There are those things that are real and present, it is supposed, and then there are mathematical concepts: creations of our mind, mysterious tools for those unengaged with the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • The Britannica Guide to Geometry

    by William Hosch ...
    Series series Math Explained
    More than a study of shapes and angles, geometry reflects an amalgamation of discoveries over time. This book not only provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of geometric shapes, axioms, and formulas, it presents the field’s brilliant minds—from Euclid to Wendelin Werner and many in between—whose works reflect a progression of mathematical thought throughout the centuries and have ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus