Scenes from the History of Real Functions

F a Medvedev

• Hardcover | Engels | Science Networks. Historical Studies | nr. 7
• To attempt to compile a relatively complete bibliography of the theory of functions of a real variable with the requisite bibliographical data, to enu... Lees meer

Italian Mathematics Between the Two World Wars

Angelo Guerraggio, Pietro Nastasi

• Hardcover | Engels | Science Networks. Historical Studies | nr. 29
• During the first decades of the last century Italian mathematics was considered to be the third national school due to its importance and the high lev... Lees meer

Verbindung Und Affinität

Ursula Klein

• Paperback | Duits | Science Networks. Historical Studies | nr. 14
• Die Entstehung des chemischen Verbindungsbegriffs, ein Fundamentalbegriff der neuzeitlichen Chemie, ist kaum untersucht, weil er für eine blosse Präzi... Lees meer

Die Entwicklung Des Tensorkalküls

Karin Reich

• Hardcover | Duits | Science Networks. Historical Studies | nr. 11
• Die allgemeine Relativitästheorie lässt sich nur mit Hilfe des Tensorkalküls formulieren. Diesen lernte Einstein 1912 in Form des absoluten Differenti... Lees meer

Varying Gravity

Helge Kragh

• Paperback | Engels | Science Networks. Historical Studies | nr. 54
• The main focus of this book is on the interconnection of two unorthodox scientific ideas, the varying-gravity hypothesis and the expanding-earth hypot... Lees meer

Intellectual Pursuits of Nicolas Rashevsky

Maya M Shmailov

• Paperback | Engels | Science Networks. Historical Studies | nr. 55
• Who was Nicolas Rashevsky? To answer that question, this book draws on Rashevsky's unexplored personal archival papers and shares interviews with his ... Lees meer

Encyclopaedia of Historical Metrology, Weights, and Measures

Jan Gyllenbok

• Hardcover | Engels | Science Networks. Historical Studies | nr. 56
• This first of three volumes starts with a short introduction to historical metrology as a scientific discipline and goes on with an anthology of acien... Lees meer

Intellectual Pursuits of Nicolas Rashevsky

Maya M Shmailov

• Hardcover | Engels | Science Networks. Historical Studies | nr. 55
• Who was Nicolas Rashevsky? To answer that question, this book draws on Rashevsky's unexplored personal archival papers and shares interviews with his ... Lees meer

And Yet It Is Heard

Tito M Tonietti

• Hardcover | Engels | Science Networks. Historical Studies | nr. 46
• We bring into full light some excerpts on musical subjects which were until now scattered throughout the most famous scientific texts. The main scient... Lees meer

Controversy and Consensus: Nuclear Beta Decay 1911-1934

Carsten Jensen

• Hardcover | Engels | Science Networks. Historical Studies | nr. 24
• To all four of us, Carsten was the best possible friend and colleague. To Finn, he was a fellow student in the history of science for several years at... Lees meer

Controversy and Consensus: Nuclear Beta Decay 1911-1934

Carsten Jensen

• Paperback | Engels | Science Networks. Historical Studies | nr. 24
• To all four of us, Carsten was the best possible friend and colleague. To Finn, he was a fellow student in the history of science for several years at... Lees meer

Scenes from the History of Real Functions

F a Medvedev

• Paperback | Engels | Science Networks. Historical Studies | nr. 7
• To attempt to compile a relatively complete bibliography of the theory of functions of a real variable with the requisite bibliographical data, to enu... Lees meer

L'Hôpital's Analyse Des Infiniments Petits

Robert E Bradley, Salvatore J Petrilli, C Edward Sandifer

• Paperback | Engels | Science Networks. Historical Studies | nr. 50
• This monograph is an annotated translation of what is considered to be the world's first calculus textbook, originally published in French in 1696. Th... Lees meer

Seventeenth-Century Indivisibles Revisited

• Paperback | Engels | Science Networks. Historical Studies | nr. 49
• The tremendous success of indivisibles methods in geometry in the seventeenth century, responds to a vast project: installation of infinity in mathema... Lees meer

The Jewish Mathematical Diaspora from Fascist Italy

Erika Luciano

• Hardcover | Engels | Science Networks. Historical Studies | nr. 64
• Delving into previously undisclosed archival sources, this monograph offers a meticulously researched portrayal of Italian Jewish mathematicians amids... Lees meer

History of Virtual Work Laws

Danilo Capecchi

• Paperback | Engels | Science Networks. Historical Studies | nr. 42
• The book presents a history of classical mechanics by focusing on issues of equilibrium. The historical point of view adopted here restricts attention... Lees meer

The Complex Itinerary of Leibniz's Planetary Theory

Paolo Bussotti

• Hardcover | Engels | Science Networks. Historical Studies | nr. 52
• This book presents new insights into Leibniz's research on planetary theory and his system of pre-established harmony. Although some aspects of this t... Lees meer

Leibniz on the Parallel Postulate and the Foundations of Geometry

Vincenzo De Risi

• Hardcover | Engels | Science Networks. Historical Studies | nr. 51
• This book offers a general introduction to the geometrical studies of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) and his mathematical epistemology. In part... Lees meer

Travelling Mathematics - The Fate of Diophantos' Arithmetic

Ad Meskens

• Paperback | Engels | Science Networks. Historical Studies | nr. 41
• In this book the author presents a comprehensive study of Diophantos' monumental work known as Arithmetika, a highly acclaimed and unique set of books... Lees meer

Jacopo da Firenze's Tractatus Algorismi and Early Italian Abbacus Culture

Jens Høyrup

• Hardcover | Engels | Science Networks. Historical Studies | nr. 34
• This book examines a Tractatus algorismi written in 1307 in Montpellier by Jacopo da Firenze. It is one of the earliest surviving "abbacus" treatises ... Lees meer

Encyclopaedia of Historical Metrology, Weights, and Measures

Jan Gyllenbok

• Paperback | Engels | Science Networks. Historical Studies | nr. 56
• This first of three volumes starts with a short introduction to historical metrology as a scientific discipline and goes on with an anthology of acien... Lees meer

Expounding the Mathematical Seed. Vol. 1: The Translation

Agathe Keller

• Hardcover | Engels | Science Networks. Historical Studies | nr. 30
• In the 5th century the Indian mathematician Aryabhata (476-499) wrote a small but famous work on astronomy, the Aryabhatiya. This treatise, written in... Lees meer

Geometry and Monadology

Vincenzo De Risi

• Hardcover | Engels | Science Networks. Historical Studies | nr. 33
• This book reconstructs, both from the historical and theoretical points of view, Leibniz's geometrical studies, focusing in particular on the research... Lees meer

L'Hôpital's Analyse Des Infiniments Petits

Robert E Bradley, Salvatore J Petrilli, C Edward Sandifer

• Hardcover | Engels | Science Networks. Historical Studies | nr. 50
• This monograph is an annotated translation of what is considered to be the world's first calculus textbook, originally published in French in 1696. Th... Lees meer