The Renaissance of Astronomy provides a comprehensive, technically grounded account of the works of Regiomontanus, Copernicus, Tycho, Kepler and Galileo. There is nothing comparable to it in scope and detail. It is the fruit of a...Daugiau...
This book provides the hitherto disregarded development of the principle of angular momentum, and aims at reconstructing its inception by analyzing Eulers relevant publications and correspondence, and using his unpublished manuscripts and noteboo...Daugiau...
Calculating the sine of one degree, not possible with the tools of geometry alone, was a problem approached frequently in various ways in Hellenistic, Arabic, Persian, and European trigonometry. This book situa...Daugiau...
This monograph traces the development of projective geometry from its Greek origins to the early 20th century. It covers Renaissance perspective studies and insights from the late sixteenth to seventeenth centuries, examining the contributions of De...Daugiau...
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 Hilberts first and second problems, namely Cantors continuum hypothesis about the cardinality of real numbers,...Daugiau...
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 Hilberts first and second problems, namely Cantors continuum hypothesis about the cardinality of real numbers,...Daugiau...
Gödel then went on to attack Hilberts first and second Paris problems, namely Cantors continuum problem about the type of infinity of the real numbers, and the freedom from contradiction of the theory of real numbers....Daugiau...
Paris of the year 1900 left two landmarks: the Tour Eiffel, and David Hilberts celebrated list of twenty-four mathematical problems presented at a conference opening the new century. Kurt Gödel, a logical icon of th...Daugiau...
Kurt Gödel (19061978) shook the mathematical world in 1931 by a result that has become an icon of 20th century science: The search for rigour in proving mathematical theorems had led to the formalization of mathematical proofs, to the extent that su...Daugiau...
The aim of this monograph is to describe Greek mathematics as a literary product, studying its style from a logico-syntactic point of view and setting parallels with logical and grammatical doctrines developed in antiquity. In this way, major philoso...Daugiau...
This volume offers a new English translation, introduction, and detailed commentary on Sefer Meyasher Aqov, (The Rectifying of the Curved), a 14th-century Hebrew treatise on the foundation of geometry. The book is a mixture of...Daugiau...
This volume aims to make Stephen of Pisa and Antiochs work on the celestial sciences accessible to a wider readership, providing not just the text but a translation and introduction as well. It is split into two parts: the first provides an extensiv...Daugiau...
The science of magic squares witnessed an important development in the Islamic world during the Middle Ages, with a great variety of construction methods being created and ameliorated. The initial step was the transl...Daugiau...
Kurt Gödel (19061978) shook the mathematical world in 1931 by a result that has become an icon of 20th century science: The search for rigour in proving mathematical theorems had led to the formalization of mathematical proofs, to the extent that su...Daugiau...
This volume aims to make Stephen of Pisa and Antiochs work on the celestial sciences accessible to a wider readership, providing not just the text but a translation and introduction as well. The edition is based on the onl...Daugiau...
The science of magic squares witnessed an important development in the Islamic world during the Middle Ages, with a great variety of construction methods being created and ameliorated. The initial step was the translation, i...Daugiau...
This groundbreaking volume provides an up-to-date, accessible guide to Sanskrit astronomical tables and their analysis. It begins with an overview of Indian mathematical astronomy and its literature, including table texts, in the context of history o...Daugiau...
This book identifies three of the exceptionally fruitful periods of the millennia-long history of the mathematical tradition of India: the very beginning of that tradition in the construction of the now-universal system of decimal numeration and of a...Daugiau...
This book provides a critical edition, translation, and study of the version of Euclids treatise made by Thabit ibn Qurra, which is the earliest Arabic version that we have in its entirety. This monograph study examines the conceptual differ...Daugiau...
This is the second and final volume of Dutch physicist Hendrik Antoon Lorentzs scientific correspondence with Dutch colleagues, including Pieter Zeeman and Paul Ehrenfest. These 294 letters cover multiple subjects, ranging from pure mathematics t...Daugiau...
