Author: Robert B. ForbesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Contributions to the Geology of the Bering Sea Basin and Adjacent Regions. Selected Papers from the Symposium on the Geology and Geophysics of the Bering Sea Region, on the Occasion of the Inauguration of the C.T. Elvey Building, University of Alaska, June 26-28, 1970, and from the 2nd International Symposium on Arctic Geology Held in San Francisco, February 1-4, 1971
Author: Robert B. ForbesA History of Mathematics
Author: Luke HodgkinPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191664367
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
A History of Mathematics: From Mesopotamia to Modernity covers the evolution of mathematics through time and across the major Eastern and Western civilizations. It begins in Babylon, then describes the trials and tribulations of the Greek mathematicians. The important, and often neglected, influence of both Chinese and Islamic mathematics is covered in detail, placing the description of early Western mathematics in a global context. The book concludes with modern mathematics, covering recent developments such as the advent of the computer, chaos theory, topology, mathematical physics, and the solution of Fermat's Last Theorem. Containing more than 100 illustrations and figures, this text, aimed at advanced undergraduates and postgraduates, addresses the methods and challenges associated with studying the history of mathematics. The reader is introduced to the leading figures in the history of mathematics (including Archimedes, Ptolemy, Qin Jiushao, al-Kashi, al-Khwarizmi, Galileo, Newton, Leibniz, Helmholtz, Hilbert, Alan Turing, and Andrew Wiles) and their fields. An extensive bibliography with cross-references to key texts will provide invaluable resource to students and exercises (with solutions) will stretch the more advanced reader.
Lost Discoveries
Author: Dick TeresiPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 143912860X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
*A New York Times Notable Book* Boldly challenging conventional wisdom, acclaimed science writer and Omni magazine cofounder Dick Teresi traces the origins of contemporary science back to their ancient roots in this eye-opening and landmark work. This innovative history proves once and for all that the roots of modern science were established centuries, and in some instances millennia, before the births of Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton. In this enlightening, entertaining, and important book, Teresi describes many discoveries from all over the non-Western world—Sumeria, Babylon, Egypt, India, China, Africa, Arab nations, the Americas, and the Pacific islands—that equaled and often surpassed Greek and European learning in the fields of mathematics, astronomy, cosmology, physics, geology, chemistry, and technology. The first extensive and authoritative multicultural history of science written for a popular audience, Lost Discoveries fills a critical void in our scientific, cultural, and intellectual history and is destined to become a classic in its field.
The Development of Arabic Mathematics: Between Arithmetic and Algebra
Author: R. RashedPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401732744
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
An understanding of developments in Arabic mathematics between the IXth and XVth century is vital to a full appreciation of the history of classical mathematics. This book draws together more than ten studies to highlight one of the major developments in Arabic mathematical thinking, provoked by the double fecondation between arithmetic and the algebra of al-Khwarizmi, which led to the foundation of diverse chapters of mathematics: polynomial algebra, combinatorial analysis, algebraic geometry, algebraic theory of numbers, diophantine analysis and numerical calculus. Thanks to epistemological analysis, and the discovery of hitherto unknown material, the author has brought these chapters into the light, proposes another periodization for classical mathematics, and questions current ideology in writing its history. Since the publication of the French version of these studies and of this book, its main results have been admitted by historians of Arabic mathematics, and integrated into their recent publications. This book is already a vital reference for anyone seeking to understand history of Arabic mathematics, and its contribution to Latin as well as to later mathematics. The English translation will be of particular value to historians and philosophers of mathematics and of science.
Intimate Universality
Author: James Rodger FlemingPublisher: Watson Publishing International
ISBN:
Category : Climate and civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Eight essays from a summer 2004 meeting of the International Commission on History of Meteorology, held in Kloster Polling, Upper Bavaria, launch a new series on the history of the science of atmospheres. The topics include meteorology in John Herschel's (1792-1871) terrestrial physics; understanding cloud formation, cloud chambers, and the role of meteorology in Cambridge physics in the late 19th century; and atmospheric science, aviation technology, and neocolonialism in the Americas 1919-45. All but one of the contributing historians of science are from the US. Science History Publications USA is a division of Watson Publishing International.
Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter
Author: A Dissertation on the Use of the Negative Sign in Algebra
Author: Francis MaseresPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Negative Math
Author: Alberto A. MartínezPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691123097
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Explores controversies in the history of numbers, especially the so-called negative and ''impossible'' numbers. This book uses history, puzzles, and lively debates to demonstrate how it is possible to devise new artificial systems of mathematical rules. It contends that departures from traditional rules can even be the basis for new applications.
Elements of the History of Mathematics
Author: N. BourbakiPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9783540647676
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Each volume of Nicolas Bourbakis well-known work, The Elements of Mathematics, contains a section or chapter devoted to the history of the subject. This book collects together those historical segments with an emphasis on the emergence, development, and interaction of the leading ideas of the mathematical theories presented in the Elements. In particular, the book provides a highly readable account of the evolution of algebra, geometry, infinitesimal calculus, and of the concepts of number and structure, from the Babylonian era through to the 20th century.
Mathematical Thought From Ancient to Modern Times
Author: Morris KlinePublisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 9780195061376
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Traces the development of mathematics from its beginnings in Babylonia and ancient Egypt to the work of Riemann and Godel in modern times.