History of mathematics Books
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Tangled Origins Of The Leibnizian Calculus, The:
Book SynopsisThis book is a detailed study of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's creation of calculus from 1673 to the 1680s. We examine and analyze the mathematics in several of his early manuscripts as well as various articles published in the Acta Eruditorum. It studies some of the other lesser known “calculi” Leibniz created such as the Analysis Situs, delves into aspects of his logic, and gives an overview of his efforts to construct a Universal Characteristic, a goal that has its distant origin in the Ars Magna of the 13th century Catalan philosopher Raymond Llull, whose work enjoyed a renewed popularity in the century and a half prior to Leibniz.This book also touches upon a new look at the priority controversy with Newton and a Kuhnian interpretation of the nature of mathematical change. This book may be the only integrated treatment based on recent research and should be a thought-provoking contribution to the history of mathematics for scholars and students, interested in either Leibniz's mathematical achievement or general issues in the field.Table of ContentsEvolution or Revolution in Mathematics: The Case of Leibniz; Some Issues Raised by Seventeenth Century Mathematics; Isaac Barrow, a Foil to Leibniz; A Young Central European Polymath between the Scholastics and the Moderns; First Steps in Mathematics (1673 - 1675); The Creation of Calculus (1676 - 1686); Logic; The Universal Characteristic; The Baroque Cultural Context; Epilogue; Some Concluding Remarks on Mathematical Change; Appendices: A: A Transmutation Theorem of Leibniz; B: Leibniz's Series Quadrature of a Conic; C: Syllogistic Logic; D: The Vis Viva Controversy; E: Some Applications of Conic Sections, Mechanical Curves and Neusis to Greek Geometry.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Fields Medallists' Lectures (Third Edition)
Book SynopsisAlthough the Fields Medal does not have the same public recognition as the Nobel Prizes, they share a similar intellectual standing. It is restricted to one field — that of mathematics. The medal is awarded to the best mathematicians who are 40 or younger, every four years.A list of Fields Medallists and their contributions provides a bird's-eye view of the major developments in mathematics over the past 80 years. It highlights the areas in which, at various times, the greatest progress has been made.The third edition of Fields Medallists' Lectures features additional contributions from: John W Milnor (1962), Enrico Bombieri (1974), Gerd Faltings (1986), Andrei Okounkov (2006), Terence Tao (2006), Cédric Villani (2010), Elon Lindenstrauss (2010), Ngô Bao Châu (2010), Stanislav Smirnov (2010).
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Algorithms Monks And Merchants Computing In
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Jordan Berger Histoire des Mathématiques: L'histoire de Platon,
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