![David Hilbert's Lectures on the Foundations of Physics 1898-1914]( "David Hilbert's Lectures on the Foundations of Physics 1898-1914")
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Majer, U. (Ed), Sauer, T. (Ed) (2021)
The first part of volume 4 documents Hilbert’s efforts in the period 1898-1910 to base all known physics (including thermodynamics, hydrodynamics and electrodynamics) on classical …
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![The Making of a Scribe]( "The Making of a Scribe")
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Middeke-Conlin, R. (2020)
This book presents a novel methodology to study economic texts. The author investigates discrepancies in these writings by focusing on errors, mistakes, and rounding numbers. In …
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![Alfonso's Rectifying the Curved]( "Alfonso's Rectifying the Curved")
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Glasner, R., Baraness, A. (2020)
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 …
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![Research in History and Philosophy of Mathematics]( "Research in History and Philosophy of Mathematics")
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Zack, M. (Ed), Schlimm, D. (Ed) (2020)
This volume contains ten papers that have been collected by the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/Société canadienne d’histoire et de philosophie des …
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![World Women in Mathematics 2018]( "World Women in Mathematics 2018")
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Araujo, C. (Ed), Benkart, G. (Ed), Praeger, C. E. (Ed), Tanbay, B. (Ed) (2019)
The first World Meeting for Women in Mathematics - (WM)² - was a satellite event of the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) 2018 in Rio de Janeiro. With a focus on …
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![Stephen of Pisa and Antioch: Liber Mamonis]( "Stephen of Pisa and Antioch: Liber Mamonis")
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Grupe, D. (2019)
This volume aims to make Stephen of Pisa and Antioch’s work on the celestial sciences accessible to a wider readership, providing not just the text but a translation and …
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![Geometry in History]( "Geometry in History")
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Dani, S. G. (Ed), Papadopoulos, A. (Ed) (2019)
This is a collection of surveys on important mathematical ideas, their origin, their evolution and their impact in current research. The authors are mathematicians who are leading …
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![Monographs in Tang Official Historiography]( "Monographs in Tang Official Historiography")
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Morgan, D. P. (Ed), Chaussende, D. (Ed) (2019)
This book examines the role of medieval authors in writing the history of ancient science. It features essays that explore the content, structure, and ideas behind technical …
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![Selected Essays on Pre- and Early Modern Mathematical Practice]( "Selected Essays on Pre- and Early Modern Mathematical Practice")
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Høyrup, J. (2019)
This book presents a broad selection of articles mainly published during the last two decades on a variety of topics within the history of mathematics, mostly focusing on …
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![Descriptive Geometry, The Spread of a Polytechnic Art]( "Descriptive Geometry, The Spread of a Polytechnic Art")
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Barbin, É. (Ed), Menghini, M. (Ed), Volkert, K. (Ed) (2019)
This book seeks to explore the history of descriptive geometry in relation to its circulation in the 19th century, which had been favoured by the transfers of the model of the …
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![Nine Chapters on Mathematical Modernity]( "Nine Chapters on Mathematical Modernity")
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Bréard, A. (2019)
The book addresses for the first time the dynamics associated with the modernization of mathematics in China from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century from a transcultural …
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![Studies in Indian Mathematics and Astronomy]( "Studies in Indian Mathematics and Astronomy")
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Kolachana, A. (Ed), Mahesh, K. (Ed), Ramasubramanian, K. (Ed) (2019)
This volume presents a collection of some of the seminal articles of Professor K. S. Shukla who made immense contributions to our understanding of the history and development of …
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![Al-Kāshī's Miftāḥ al-Ḥisab, Volume I: Arithmetic]( "Al-Kāshī's Miftāḥ al-Ḥisab, Volume I: Arithmetic")
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Aydin, N., Hammoudi, L. (2019)
Jamshīd al-Kāshī’s Miftāḥ al-Ḥisab (Key to Arithmetic) was largely unknown to researchers until the mid-20th century, and has not been translated to English until now. This book …
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![Magic Squares]( "Magic Squares")
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Sesiano, J. (2019)
The science of magic squares witnessed an important development in the Islamic world during the Middle Ages, with a great variety of construction methods being created and …
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![Bhāskara-prabhā]( "Bhāskara-prabhā")
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Ramasubramanian, K. (Ed), Hayashi, T. (Ed), Montelle, C. (Ed) (2019)
This book covers the works of Bhāskara, in particular, his monumental treatise on astronomy, the Siddhāntaśiromaṇi, his astronomical handbook, the Karaṇakutūhala, and his two …
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![Die Werke von Johann I und Nicolaus II Bernoulli]( "Die Werke von Johann I und Nicolaus II Bernoulli")
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Giusti, E. (Ed), Bernoulli, J. I., Roero, C. S. (Ed), Bernoulli, N. I. (2019)
This volume contains 17 mathematical works by Johann Bernoulli, written between 1680 – when he was only 13 years old and studied mathematics with his brother Jacob – and 1732, …
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![Cauchy's Calcul Infinitésimal]( "Cauchy's Calcul Infinitésimal")
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Cates, D. M. (2019)
This book is a complete English translation of Augustin-Louis Cauchy's historic 1823 text (his first devoted to calculus), Résumé des leçons sur le calcul infinitésimal, "Summary …
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![Africa and Mathematics]( "Africa and Mathematics")
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Huylebrouck, D. (2019)
This volume on ethnomathematics in Central Africa fills a gap in the current literature, focusing on a region rarely explored by other publications. It highlights the discovery of …
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![A Pure Soul]( "A Pure Soul")
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Parlangeli, A. (2019)
This biography illuminates the life of Ennio De Giorgi, a mathematical genius in parallel with John Nash, the Nobel Prize Winner and protagonist of A Beautiful Mind. Beginning …
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![The Impossibility of Squaring the Circle in the 17th Century]( "The Impossibility of Squaring the Circle in the 17th Century")
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Crippa, D. (2019)
This book is about James Gregory’s attempt to prove that the quadrature of the circle, the ellipse and the hyperbola cannot be found algebraically. Additonally, the subsequent …
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