A History of Parametric Statistical Inference from Bernoulli to Fisher, 1713-1935

Anders Hald

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• This book offers a detailed history of parametric statistical inference. Covering the period between James Bernoulli and R.A. Fisher, it examines: bin... Lees meer

The Geometry of an Art

Kirsti Andersen

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• This book aims at giving a comprehensive review of literature on perspective constructions from the Renaissance to the end of the eighteenth century. ... Lees meer

Can Mathematics Be Proved Consistent?

Jan Von Plato

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• Kurt Gödel (1906-1978) shook the mathematical world in 1931 by a result that has become an icon of 20th century science: The search for rigour in prov... Lees meer

James Stirling's Methodus Differentialis

Ian Tweddle

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• This is a new translation designed to make this classic and important text more generally accessible. It is supplemented with extensive notes and hist... Lees meer

Ancient Astronomical Observations and the Study of the Moon's Motion (1691-1757)

John M Steele

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• The discovery of a gradual acceleration in the moon's mean motion by Edmond Halley in the last decade of the seventeenth century led to a revival of i... Lees meer

Pappus of Alexandria: Book 4 of the Collection

Heike Sefrin-Weis

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• Although not so well known today, Book 4 of Pappus' Collection is one of the most important and influential mathematical texts from antiquity. The mat... Lees meer

Babylonian Mathematical Astronomy: Procedure Texts

Mathieu Ossendrijver

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• This book contains new translations and a new analysis of the procedure texts of Babylonian mathematical astronomy, the earliest known form of mathema... Lees meer

Granting the Seasons

Nathan Sivin

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• China's most sophisticated system of computational astronomy was created for a Mongol emperor who could neither read nor write Chinese, to celebrate v... Lees meer

Lengths, Widths, Surfaces

Jens Høyrup

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• In this examination of the Babylonian cuneiform "algebra" texts, based on a detailed investigation of the terminology and discursive organization of t... Lees meer

Fibonacci's de Practica Geometrie

Barnabas Hughes

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• Leonardo da Pisa, perhaps better known as Fibonacci (ca. 1170 - ca. 1240), selected the most useful parts of Greco-Arabic geometry for the book known ... Lees meer

Jaghmīnī's Mulakhkhaṣ

Sally P Ragep

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• This book provides the only critical edition and English translation of Maḥmūd al-Jaghmīnī's al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾa al-basīṭa, the most widely circ... Lees meer

From Here to Infinity

Andrea del Centina, Alessandro Gimigliano

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• This monograph traces the development of projective geometry from its Greek origins to the early 20th century. It covers Renaissance perspective studi... Lees meer

Most Honourable Remembrance

Andrew I Dale

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• Thomas Bayes (1702 - 1761) was an English clergyman and mathematician. Until around 1950, he was considered a minor contributor to the history of math... Lees meer

The Geometry of an Art

Kirsti Andersen

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• This book aims at giving a comprehensive review of literature on perspective constructions from the Renaissance to the end of the eighteenth century. ... Lees meer

Cauchy's Cours d'Analyse

Robert E Bradley, C Edward Sandifer

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• In 1821, Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789-1857) published a textbook, the Cours d'analyse, to accompany his course in analysis at the Ecole Polytechnique. ... Lees meer

Studies in Indian Mathematics and Astronomy

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• This volume presents a collection of some of the seminal articles of Professor K. S. Shukla who made immense contributions to our understanding of the... Lees meer

The Mathematics of India

P P Divakaran

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• This book identifies three of the exceptionally fruitful periods of the millennia-long history of the mathematical tradition of India: the very beginn... Lees meer

Paul Lévy and Maurice Fréchet

Marc Barbut, Bernard Locker, Laurent Mazliak

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• The fascinating correspondence between Paul Lévy and Maurice Fréchet spans an extremely active period in French mathematics during the twentieth centu... Lees meer

Ganita-Yukti-Bhāṣā (Rationales in Mathematical Astronomy) of Jyeṣṭhadeva

K V Sarma, K Ramasubramanian, M D Srinivas, M S Sriram

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• Ganita-yukti-bhasa (Rationales in Mathematical Astronomy) of Jyesthadeva (c.1530) is a seminal text of the Kerala school of astronomy. It is composed ... Lees meer

Fibonacci's Liber Abaci

Laurence Sigler

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• "Leonardo of Pisa's Liber Abaci (Book of Calculation) is one of the most important books in the history of European mathematics. Leonardo learned his ... Lees meer

Emergence of the Theory of Lie Groups

Thomas Hawkins

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• Lie groups and Lie algebras arose in the study of the mathematical properties of rotations. The ideas were originally developed by the Norwegian mathe... Lees meer

Kurt Gödel: Results on Foundations

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• Kurt Gödel (1906-1978) gained world-wide fame by his incompleteness theorem of 1931. Later, he set as his aim to solve what are known as Hilbert's fir... Lees meer

Hidden Harmony--Geometric Fantasies

Umberto Bottazzini, Jeremy Gray

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• ​This book is a history of complex function theory from its origins to 1914, when the essential features of the modern theory were in place. It is the... Lees meer

Exploring the Limits of Preclassical Mechanics

Peter Damerow, Gideon Freudenthal, Peter McLaughlin, Jürgen Renn

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• The question of when and how the basic concepts that characterize modern science arose in Western Europe has long been central to the history of scien... Lees meer