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Ludic Proof
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 89.00Describes the relationship between science and poetry in the Hellenistic period, transforming our understanding of the origins of Western mathematics. more...
The Transformation of Mathematics in the Early Mediterranean World
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 40.00An interesting interpretation of the historical trajectory of pre-modern mathematics. more...
Barbed Wire
Wesleyan University Press 2010; US$ 19.99The history of animals and humans as seen through barbed wire. 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...
The Archimedes Codex
Orion 2011; Not AvailableDrawings and writings by Archimedes, previously thought to have been destroyed, have been uncovered beneath the pages of a 13th-century monk's prayer book. These hidden texts, slowly being retrieved and deciphered by scientists, show that Archimedes' thinking (2,200 years ago) was even ahead of Isaac Newton in the 17th century. Archimedes discovered... more...
The Archimedes Codex
Orion 2011; US$ 24.45Drawings and writings by Archimedes, previously thought to have been destroyed, have been uncovered beneath the pages of a 13th-century monk's prayer book. These hidden texts, slowly being retrieved and deciphered by scientists, show that Archimedes' thinking (2,200 years ago) was even ahead of Isaac Newton in the 17th century. Archimedes discovered... more...
The Archimedes Codex
Da Capo Press 2009; US$ 18.00The extraordinary story of the discovery of lost works by Archimedes beneath the pages of a medieval prayer book, and the amazing secrets they reveal. more...
The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 65.00This book provides a way into understanding a momentous development in human intellectual history: the phenomenon of deductive argument in classical Greek mathematics. The argument rests upon a close description of the practices of Greek mathematics, principally the use of lettered diagrams and the regulated, formulaic use of language. more...
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