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Die Erfindung der Messkunst
WBG - Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2012; US$ 34.50Hauptbeschreibung Das hohe Niveau der Mathematik und der Naturwissenschaften im antiken Griechenland beeindruckt bis heute. Doch wie kam es dazu, dass diese Wissensfelder so früh einen so hohen Stellenwert erreichen konnten? Dieses anspruchsvolle Sachbuch zeigt anhand von chronologisch geordneten Kapiteln, dass der beeindruckenden Messkunst der Griechen... more...
Agenda Relevance: A Study in Formal Pragmatics
Elsevier Science 2003; US$ 200.00Agenda Relevance is the first volume in the authors' omnibus investigation of the logic of practical reasoning, under the collective title, A Practical Logic of Cognitive Systems. In this highly original approach, practical reasoning is identified as reasoning performed with comparatively few cognitive assets, including resources such as information,... more...
1089 and All That
OUP Oxford 2010; US$ 16.99David Acheson's extraordinary little book makes mathematics accessible to everyone. From very simple beginnings he takes us on a thrilling journey to some deep mathematical ideas. On the way, via Kepler and Newton, he explains what calculus really means, gives a brief history of pi, and even takes us to chaos theory and imaginary numbers. Every... more...
Descartes's Secret Notebook
Crown Publishing Group 2009; US$ 16.00René Descartes (1596?1650) is one of the towering and central figures in Western philosophy and mathematics. His apothegm ?Cogito, ergo sum? marked the birth of the mind-body problem, while his creation of so-called Cartesian coordinates has made our intellectual conquest of physical space possible. But Descartes had a mysterious and mystical side,... more...
Price Index and its Extension
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 49.95The book is not an unrestricted survey engaging a vast and repetative literature, but a systematic treatise within clear boundaries, largely a document of Afriat's own work. The original motive of the work is to elaborate a concept of what really is a price index, which, despite some kind of price-level notion having a presence throughout economics,... more...
Fascinating Mathematical People
Princeton University Press 2011; US$ 35.00Fascinating Mathematical People is a collection of informal interviews and memoirs of sixteen prominent members of the mathematical community of the twentieth century, many still active. The candid portraits collected here demonstrate that while these men and women vary widely in terms of their backgrounds, life stories, and worldviews, they all... more...
Ramanujan's Place in the World of Mathematics
Springer 2012; US$ 47.99This book is a collection of articles, all by the author, on the Indian mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan as well as on some of the greatest mathematicians throughout the history whose life and works have things in common with Ramanujan. It presents a unique comparative study of Ramanujans spectacular discoveries and remarkable life and... more...
The History of Approximation Theory
Springer 2007; US$ 69.99Traces the history of approximation theory from Leonhard Euler's cartographic investigations at the end of the 18th century to the early 20th century contributions of Sergei Bernstein in defining a branch of function theory. Demonstrating technical control of the underlying mathematics, it focuses on the results for the development of the theory. more...
The Nature of Mathematics and the Mathematics of Nature
Elsevier Science 1998; US$ 345.00Chemistry, physics and biology are by their nature genuinely difficult. Mathematics, however, is man-made, and therefore not as complicated. Two ideas form the basis for this book: 1) to use ordinary mathematics to describe the simplicity in the structure of mathematics and 2) to develop new branches of mathematics to describe natural sciences. Mathematics... more...
The Works of Archimedes: Volume 1, The Two Books On the Sphere and the Cylinder
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 37.00This is Volume 1 of the first authoritative translation of Archimedes' works into English. Also provided are a scientific edition of the diagrams, a translation of the ancient commentator Eutocius and a commentary, where attention is paid to the cognitive and aesthetic nature of Archimedes' mathematical practice. more...









