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  • Las infinitas vidas de Euclides

    Historia del libro que forjó nuestro mundo

    par Benjamin Wardhaugh ...
    Traduit par Marc Figueras ...
    Collections series Shackleton Books
    La apasionante historia de un libro que, a lo largo de dos mil trescientos años, consiguió moldear la ciencia, la filosofía, el arte, e incluso la literatura: los Elementos de Euclides. Sería difícil encontrar un libro más influyente en la historia de la cultura que los Elementos de Euclides. A lo largo de dos mil trescientos años, su poder ha traspasado las matemáticas y la ciencia para ejercer ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Contar

    Una historia de los números

    par Benjamin Wardhaugh ...
    Collections series Shackleton Books
    Tras "Las infinitas vidas de Euclides", Benjamin Wardhaugh nos invita a un apasionante viaje por la historia de los números para descubrir como los seres humanos hemos aprendido a contar. 1, 2, 3, 4… Se supone que contar no es más que asignar cantidades a las realidades con las que tratamos, ya sean cosas, ideas o sensaciones. Una facultad aparentemente tan sencilla y cotidiana, que corremos el ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Il libro delle meraviglie euclidee

    par Benjamin Wardhaugh ...
    STORIA DEGLI ELEMENTI DI EUCLIDE«Per ventitré secoli gli Elementi di geometria di Euclide hanno plasmato il mondo e hanno attirato lettori verso uno sterminato universo di bellezza astratta e idee pure. Il viaggio nella geometria euclidea è di un fascino assoluto». Gli Elementi hanno attraversato la nostra cultura influenzando non solo la matematica e la geometria, ma anche la filosofia, l’arte e ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Gunpowder and Geometry

    The Life of Charles Hutton, Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel

    par Benjamin Wardhaugh ...
    August, 1755. Newcastle, on the north bank of the Tyne.In the fields, men and women are getting the harvest in. Sunlight, or rain. Scudding clouds and backbreaking labour. Three hundred feet underground, young Charles Hutton is at the coalface. Cramped, dust-choked, wielding a five-pound pick by candlelight. Eighteen years old, he’s been down the pits on and off for more than a decade, and now it ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Encounters with Euclid

    How an Ancient Greek Geometry Text Shaped the World

    par Benjamin Wardhaugh ...
    A sweeping cultural history of one of the most influential mathematical books ever writtenEuclid's Elements of Geometry is one of the fountainheads of mathematics—and of culture. Written around 300 BCE, it has traveled widely across the centuries, generating countless new ideas and inspiring such figures as Isaac Newton, Bertrand Russell, Abraham Lincoln, and Albert Einstein. Encounters with ... En savoir plus

    $29.69 CAD

  • Reading Mathematics in Early Modern Europe

    Studies in the Production, Collection, and Use of Mathematical Books

    Modifié par Philip Beeley, Yelda Nasifoglu, Benjamin Wardhaugh ...
    Collections series Material Readings in Early Modern Culture
    Libraries and archives contain many thousands of early modern mathematical books, of which almost equally many bear readers’ marks, ranging from deliberate annotations and accidental blots to corrections and underlinings. Such evidence provides us with the material and intellectual tools for exploring the nature of mathematical reading and the ways in which mathematics was disseminated and ... En savoir plus

    $86.99 CAD

  • Poor Robin's Prophecies

    A curious Almanac, and the everyday mathematics of Georgian Britain

    par Benjamin Wardhaugh ...
    Author, astrologer, journalist, satirist, and 'well-willer to the mathematics', Poor Robin of Saffron Walden was a fantastic, yet invented, figure of British popular culture from the Restoration to the end of the Georgian period. Poor Robin's Almanac first appeared in 1662, developing an enthusiastic following and long outliving its original creator to last until 1828. Benjamin Wardhaugh tells the ... En savoir plus

    $13.39 CAD

  • Thomas Salmon: Writings on Music

    Volume II: A Proposal to Perform Musick and Related Writings, 1685-1706

    par Benjamin Wardhaugh ...
    Collections series Music Theory in Britain, 1500–1700: Critical Editions
    This is the second volume in a two-part set on the writings of Thomas Salmon. Salmon (1647-1706) is remembered today for the fury with which Matthew Locke greeted his first foray into musical writing, the Essay to the Advancement of Musick (1672), and the near-farcical level to which the subsequent pamphlet dispute quickly descended. Salmon proposed a radical reform of musical notation, involving ... En savoir plus

    $83.81 CAD

  • The Correspondence of Charles Hutton

    Mathematical Networks in Georgian Britain

    par Benjamin Wardhaugh ...
    This book contains all the letters that are known to survive from the correspondence of Charles Hutton (1737-1823). Hutton was one of the most prominent British mathematicians of his generation; he played roles at the Royal Society, the Royal Military Academy, the Board of Longitude, the 'philomath' network and elsewhere. He worked on the explosive force of gunpowder and the mean density of the ... En savoir plus

    $109.99 CAD

  • A Wealth of Numbers

    An Anthology of 500 Years of Popular Mathematics Writing

    Modifié par Benjamin Wardhaugh ...
    An entertaining and informative anthology of popular math writing from the Renaissance to cyberspaceDespite what we may sometimes imagine, popular mathematics writing didn't begin with Martin Gardner. In fact, it has a rich tradition stretching back hundreds of years. This entertaining and enlightening antholog—the first of its kind—gathers nearly one hundred fascinating selections from the past ... En savoir plus

    $72.59 CAD

  • How to Read Historical Mathematics

    par Benjamin Wardhaugh ...
    Techniques for deciphering texts by early mathematiciansWritings by early mathematicians feature language and notations that are quite different from what we're familiar with today. Sourcebooks on the history of mathematics provide some guidance, but what has been lacking is a guide tailored to the needs of readers approaching these writings for the first time. How to Read Historical Mathematics ... En savoir plus

    $54.99 CAD

  • Music, Experiment and Mathematics in England, 1653–1705

    par Benjamin Wardhaugh ...
    How, in 1705, was Thomas Salmon, a parson from Bedfordshire, able to persuade the Royal Society that a musical performance could constitute a scientific experiment? Or that the judgement of a musical audience could provide evidence for a mathematically precise theory of musical tuning? This book presents answers to these questions. It constitutes a general history of quantitative music theory in ... En savoir plus

    $89.31 CAD