-
The language of mathematics
A marvelous compendium of mathematical symbols and their fascinating historiesGalileo famously wrote that the book of nature is written in mathematical language. The Language of Mathematics is a wide-ranging and beautifully illustrated collection of short, colorful histories of the most commonly ...
Read MoreRegular price $19.95Sale price $19.95 Regular price $19.95Unit price per -
The man who saved geometry
An illuminating biography of one of the greatest geometers of the twentieth centuryDriven by a profound love of shapes and symmetries, Donald Coxeter (1907–2003) preserved the tradition of classical geometry when it was under attack by influential mathematicians who promoted a more algebraic and ...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
The mathematical century
The twentieth century was a time of unprecedented development in mathematics, as well as in all sciences: more theorems were proved and results found in a hundred years than in all of previous history. In The Mathematical Century, Piergiorgio Odifreddi distills this unwieldy mass of knowledge int...
Read MoreRegular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
The mathematical imagination
This book offers an archeology of the undeveloped potential of mathematics for critical theory. As Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno first conceived of the critical project in the 1930s, critical theory steadfastly opposed the mathematization of thought. Mathematics flattened thought into a da...
Read MoreRegular price $34.00Sale price $34.00 Regular price $34.00Unit price per -
The mathematics of secrets
Explaining the mathematics of cryptographyThe Mathematics of Secrets takes readers on a fascinating tour of the mathematics behind cryptography—the science of sending secret messages. Using a wide range of historical anecdotes and real-world examples, Joshua Holden shows how mathematical principl...
Read MoreRegular price $18.95Sale price $18.95 Regular price $18.95Unit price per -
The new era in american mathematics, 1920–1950
A meticulously researched history on the development of American mathematics in the three decades following World War IAs the Roaring Twenties lurched into the Great Depression, to be followed by the scourge of Nazi Germany and World War II, American mathematicians pursued their research, positio...
Read MoreRegular price $55.00Sale price $55.00 Regular price $55.00Unit price per -
The proof stage
How playwrights from Alfred Jarry and Samuel Beckett to Tom Stoppard and Simon McBurney brought the power of mathematics to life on the stageThe discovery of alternate geometries, paradoxes of the infinite, incompleteness, and chaos theory revealed that, despite its reputation for certainty, math...
Read MoreRegular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
The rise of statistical thinking, 1820–1900
An essential work on the origins of statisticsThe Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820–1900 explores the history of statistics from the field's origins in the nineteenth century through to the factors that produced the burst of modern statistical innovation in the early twentieth century. Theodore ...
Read MoreRegular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
The secret formula
The legendary Renaissance math duel that ushered in the modern age of algebraThe Secret Formula tells the story of two Renaissance mathematicians whose jealousies, intrigues, and contentious debates led to the discovery of a formula for the solution of the cubic equation. Niccolò Tartaglia was a ...
Read MoreRegular price $18.95Sale price $18.95 Regular price $18.95Unit price per -
The story of proof
How the concept of proof has enabled the creation of mathematical knowledgeThe Story of Proof investigates the evolution of the concept of proof—one of the most significant and defining features of mathematical thought—through critical episodes in its history. From the Pythagorean theorem to mode...
Read MoreRegular price $48.00Sale price $48.00 Regular price $48.00Unit price per -
The winding trail to newton's principia mathematica
An intellectual biography of the seventeenth-century masterwork that set down the laws of motion and universal gravitation and ushered in modern physicsLong regarded as one of the most important works in the history of science, Isaac Newton’s Principia laid the mathematical foundations of classic...
Read MoreRegular price $55.00Sale price $55.00 Regular price $55.00Unit price per -
The world itself
There is a wonderfully weird but real world out there, and we are a part of it. It is time for physics to take life seriously.Can we ever truly comprehend the universe before we fully understand consciousness and the wonders, and limits, of the mind? Ulf Danielsson, an acclaimed theoretical physi...
Read MoreRegular price $18.99Sale price $18.99 Regular price $18.99Unit price per -
Three views of logic
The first interdisciplinary textbook to introduce students to three critical areas in applied logicDemonstrating the different roles that logic plays in the disciplines of computer science, mathematics, and philosophy, this concise undergraduate textbook covers select topics from three different ...
Read MoreRegular price $65.00Sale price $65.00 Regular price $65.00Unit price per -
When least is best
A mathematical journey through the most fascinating problems of extremes and how to solve themWhat is the best way to photograph a speeding bullet? How can lost hikers find their way out of a forest? Why does light move through glass in the least amount of time possible? When Least Is Best combin...
Read MoreRegular price $18.95Sale price $18.95 Regular price $18.95Unit price per
Something went wrong
Please try again
