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Elliptic Partial Differential Equations and Quasiconformal Mappings in the Plane (PMS-48)
Princeton University Press 2008; US$ 99.95This book explores the most recent developments in the theory of planar quasiconformal mappings with a particular focus on the interactions with partial differential equations and nonlinear analysis. It gives a thorough and modern approach to the classical theory and presents important and compelling applications across a spectrum of mathematics:... more...
The Autonomy of Mathematical Knowledge
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 26.00This study reconstructs, analyses and re-evaluates the programme of influential mathematical thinker David Hilbert, presenting it in a new light. more...
Thabit ibn Qurra
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 210.00Thabit ibn Qurra (826?901) was one of history?s most original thinkers and displayed expertise in the most difficult disciplines of this time: geometry, number theory, and astronomy as well as ontology, physics, and metaphysics. Approximately a dozen of this shorter mathematical and philosophical writings are collected in this volume. Critically edited... more...
A Passage to Infinity
SAGE India 2009; US$ 39.95This book traces the first faltering steps taken in the mathematical theorisation of infinity which marks the emergence of modern mathematics. It analyses the part played by Indian mathematicians through the Kerala conduit, which is an important but neglected part of the history of mathematics. Passage to Infinity: Medieval Indian Mathematics from... more...
Mind and Nature
Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 45.00Hermann Weyl (1885-1955) was one of the twentieth century's most important mathematicians, as well as a seminal figure in the development of quantum physics and general relativity. He was also an eloquent writer with a lifelong interest in the philosophical implications of the startling new scientific developments with which he was so involved. Mind... more...
The Lost Millennium
Knopf Canada 2010; US$ 22.00Have you ever wondered how we really know what year it is? Part detective story, part conspiracy theory, part scientific history, The Lost Millennium explores the astonishing possibility that our calendar is out by a thousand years. A chance conversation at a conference in Mexico started mathematician Florin Diacu on an amazing journey to make sense... more...
Inductive Logic
Elsevier Science 2011; US$ 270.00This volume is number ten in the 11-volume Handbook of the History of Logic. While there are many examples were a science split from philosophy and became autonomous (such as physics with Newton and biology with Darwin), and while there are, perhaps, topics that are of exclusively philosophical interest, inductive logic ? as this handbook attests... more...
Beyond Geometry
Infobase Publishing 2011; US$ 45.00Beyond Geometry describes how set-theoretic topology developed and why it now occupies a central place in mathematics. Describing axiomatic method as well as providing a definition of what a geometric property is, this new resource examines how early analysts incorporated geometric thinking into their development of the calculus. It also looks at the... more...
Mathematics and the Laws of Nature
Infobase Publishing 2011; US$ 45.00Mathematics and the Laws of Nature, Revised Edition describes the evolution of the idea that nature can be described in the language of mathematics. Colorful chapters explore the earliest attempts to apply deductive methods to the study of the natural world. This revised resource goes on to examine the development of classical conservation laws, including... more...
Probability and Statistics
Infobase Publishing 2011; US$ 45.00Probability and Statistics, Revised Edition deals with the history of probability, describing the modern concept of randomness and examining "pre-probabilistic" ideas of what most people today would characterize as randomness. This revised book documents some historically important early uses of probability to illustrate some very important... more...









