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  • Augustus De Morgan, Polymath

    New Perspectives on his Life and Legacy

    par Karen Attar ...
    When Augustus De Morgan died in 1871, he was described as ‘one of the profoundest mathematicians in the United Kingdom’ and even as ‘the greatest of our mathematicians’. But he was far more than just a mathematician. Because much of his voluminous written output on various subjects was scattered throughout journals and encyclopaedias, the breadth of his interests and contributions has been ... En savoir plus

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  • Ada Lovelace

    La formación de una científica informática

    par Christopher Hollings, Ursula Martin, Adrian Rice ...
    Traduit par Tayra Mª Carmen Lanuza Navarro ...
    Collections series BIOGRAFÍAS
    Ada, condesa de Lovelace (1815-1852), fue hija del poeta romántico Lord Byron y su esposa, Anna Isabella. A pesar de ser una actividad inusual para las jóvenes de la época, estudió ciencias y matemáticas desde muy pronto y habitualmente se la considera la primera programadora informática del mundo, por lo que se ha convertido en un icono para las mujeres en el ámbito de la tecnología. Este libro ... En savoir plus

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  • Mathematics in Victorian Britain

    par Foreword by Dr Adam Hart-Davis, Writer, photographer and broadcaster ...
    During the Victorian era, industrial and economic growth led to a phenomenal rise in productivity and invention. That spirit of creativity and ingenuity was reflected in the massive expansion in scope and complexity of many scientific disciplines during this time, with subjects evolving rapidly and the creation of many new disciplines. The subject of mathematics was no exception and many of the ... En savoir plus

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  • The Story of Mathematics

    From creating the pyramids to exploring infinity

    par Anne Rooney ...
    Collections series The Story of
    'In order to understand the universe you must know the language in which it is written. And that language is mathematics.'- Galileo (1564-1642)For hundreds of thousands of years, we have sought order in the apparent chaos of the universe. Mathematics has been our most valuable tool in that search, uncovering the patterns and rules that govern our world and beyond. How the World Works: Mathematics ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $3.99 CAD Maintenant $0.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Complete Mathematics

    A step by step introduction to the mathematical essentials

    par Trevor Johnson, Hugh Neill ...
    Are you looking for a clear, accessible guide to mathematics that can help you brush up your skills and rediscover the key concepts and techniques? Complete Mathematics provides an invaluable, step-by-step introduction to the subject. Packed full of worked examples and useful exercises, it will guide you through the essentials quickly and easily, giving you the knowledge you need to gain maths ... En savoir plus

    $4.99 CAD

  • The History of Mathematics

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Jacqueline Stedall ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    Mathematics is a fundamental human activity that can be practised and understood in a multitude of ways; indeed, mathematical ideas themselves are far from being fixed, but are adapted and changed by their passage across periods and cultures. In this Very Short Introduction, Jacqueline Stedall explores the rich historical and cultural diversity of mathematical endeavour from the distant past to ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Artist and the Mathematician

    par Amir D Aczel ...
    Nicolas Bourbaki, whose mathematical publications began to appear in the late 1930s and continued to be published through most of the twentieth century, was a direct product as well as a major force behind an important revolution that took place in the early decades of the twentieth century that completely changed Western culture. Pure mathematics, the area of Bourbaki's work, seems on the surface ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • Philosophy of Mathematics

    A Contemporary Introduction to the World of Proofs and Pictures

    par James Robert Brown ...
    Collections series Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy
    In his long-awaited new edition of Philosophy of Mathematics, James Robert Brown tackles important new as well as enduring questions in the mathematical sciences. Can pictures go beyond being merely suggestive and actually prove anything? Are mathematical results certain? Are experiments of any real value?This clear and engaging book takes a unique approach, encompassing non-standard topics such ... En savoir plus

    $83.99 CAD

  • Finding Fibonacci

    The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World

    par Keith Devlin ...
    A compelling firsthand account of Keith Devlin's ten-year quest to tell Fibonacci's storyIn 2000, Keith Devlin set out to research the life and legacy of the medieval mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, popularly known as Fibonacci, whose book Liber abbaci has quite literally affected the lives of everyone alive today. Although he is most famous for the Fibonacci numbers—which, it so happens, he didn ... En savoir plus

    $39.59 CAD

  • Significant Figures

    The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians

    par Ian Stewart ...
    A celebrated mathematician traces the history of math through the lives and work of twenty-five pioneering mathematiciansIn Significant Figures, acclaimed mathematician Ian Stewart explores the work of 25 of history's most important mathematicians, showing how they developed on each other's work and built the mathematics we use today.Through these short biographies, we get acquainted with the ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Closing the Gap

    The Quest to Understand Prime Numbers

    par Vicky Neale ...
    In 2013, a little known mathematician in his late 50s stunned the mathematical community with a breakthrough on an age-old problem about prime numbers. Since then, there has been further dramatic progress on the problem, thanks to the efforts of a large-scale online collaborative effort of a type that would have been unthinkable in mathematics a couple of decades ago, and the insight and ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD

  • Indra's Pearls

    The Vision of Felix Klein

    par David Mumford, Caroline Series, David Wright ...
    Felix Klein, one of the great nineteenth-century geometers, discovered in mathematics an idea prefigured in Buddhist mythology: the heaven of Indra contained a net of pearls, each of which was reflected in its neighbour, so that the whole Universe was mirrored in each pearl. Klein studied infinitely repeated reflections and was led to forms with multiple coexisting symmetries. For a century, these ... En savoir plus

    $47.99 CAD