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Apollonius de Perge
By: Rashed, Roshdi (ed.); Decorps-Foulquier, Micheline (ed.); Federspiel, Michel (ed.)
Published by: Walter de Gruyter
The treatise on conic sections by the Hellenistic mathematician Apollonius from Perga is regarded as a supreme achievement of Greek mathematics and maintained its authority right up to the 18th century. This new edition is the first to consider all Greek and Arabic sources, with the Arabic texts being presented in the first ever critical edition. Both versions of the text are accompanied by a French translation, an extensive mathematical commentary, numerous philological notes and a complete glossary. The four volumes of the edition are intended to be completed in 2009.
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Price: $207.00
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The Architecture of Modern Mathematics
By: Ferreiros, J. (ed.); Gray, J. J.
Published by: OUP Oxford
Aimed at both students and researchers in philosophy, mathematics and the history of science, this edited volume, authored by leading scholars, highlights foremost developments in both the philosophy and history of modern mathematics. - ;This edited volume, aimed at both students and researchers in philosophy, mathematics and history of science, highlights leading developments in the overlapping areas of philosophy and the history of modern mathematics. It is a coherent, wide ranging account of how a number of topics in the philosophy of mathematics must be reconsidered in the light of the latest historical research, and how a number of historical accounts can be deepened by embracing philosophical questions. - ;The essays are uniformly a joy to read, and the bibliography is ample, giving interested readers an extensive springboard for further exploration. I recommend it highly. - Andrew Arana the Mathmatical Intelligencer
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Price: $85.00
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Beyond Reason: Eight Great Problems That Reveal the Limits of Science
By: Dewdney, A. K.
Published by: John Wiley & Sons, Inc
A mind-bending excursion to the limits of science and mathematics Are some scientific problems insoluble? In Beyond Reason, internationally acclaimed math and science author A. K. Dewdney answers this question by examining eight insurmountable mathematical and scientific roadblocks that have stumped thinkers across the centuries, from ancient mathematical conundrums such as "squaring the circle," first attempted by the Pythagoreans, to G?del's vexing theorem, from perpetual motion to the upredictable behavior of chaotic systems such as the weather. A. K. Dewdney, PhD (Ontario, Canada), was the author of Scientific American's "Computer Recreations" column for eight years. He has written several critically acclaimed popular math and science books, including A Mathematical Mystery Tour (0-471-40734-8); Yes, We Have No Neutrons (0-471-29586-8); and 200% of Nothing (0-471-14574-2).
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Price: $27.95
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British Logic in the Nineteenth Century
By: Gabbay, Dov M.; Woods, John
Published by: North Holland
The present volume of the Handbook of the History of Logic is designed to establish 19th century Britain as a substantial force in logic, developing new ideas, some of which would be overtaken by, and other that would anticipate, the century's later capitulation to the mathematization of logic. British Logic in the Nineteenth Century is indispensable reading and a definitive research resource for anyone with an interest in the history of logic.
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Price: $230.00
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Calculating the Weather
By: Nebeker, Frederik
Published by: Academic Press (Elsevier Science & Technology Books)
Examines the various roles of computation throughout the history of meteorology, paying attention to the period from World War I to the 1960s. This title explains how forecasting the weather became a physics-based science. It studies the impact of the computer on meteorology, and provides an example of science transformed by the computer.
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Price: $109.00
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Codici cifrati
By: Beckman, Bengt
Published by: Springer
Durante la II guerra mondiale hanno avuto luogo numerosi risultati di rilievo nel campo della crittografia militare. Uno dei meno conosciuti quello usato dal servizio di intelligence svedese, nei confronti del codice tedesco per le comunicazioni strategiche con i comandi dei paesi occupati nel nord Europa, le cui linee passavano per la Svezia. In tal modo, durante la fase pi critica della guerra la direzione politica e militare svedese era in grado di seguire i piani e le disposizioni dei Tedeschi, venendo a conoscenza dei pi arditi progetti per modificare la propria politica, tenendo la Svezia fuori dalla guerra. La violazione del codice tedesco narrata in dettaglio, per la prima volta, con elementi che gli permettono di essere unottima introduzione al campo della crittografia, oltre che un ritratto vitale e umano della societ del tempo: una disperata condizione bellica, l'intrigo politico e spionistico, il genio del matematico Arne Beurling, le difficolt e i trucchi del mestiere, e il lavoro sistematico e oscuro di una folla di decrittatori.
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Das Unendliche
By: Taschner, Rudolf J.
Published by: Springer
Philosophen und Theologen haben uber das Unendliche nachgedacht. Doch die wahre Wissenschaft vom Unendlichen ist die Mathematik.Rudolf Taschner gelingt es, diesen zentralen Begriff auch dem mathematischen Laien zu vermitteln. Auf anschauliche Weise beschreibt er, wie bereits Pythagoras, Archimedes und Euklid versucht haben, das Unendliche zu fassen. Er macht uns mit Newton und Leibniz bekannt, die entdeckten, dass das PhC$nomen von Bewegung und Wandel nur durch die Erforschung des Unendlichen verstC$ndlich wird. Mit Spannung kann der Leser den dramatischen Streit zwischen den unterschiedlichen Positionen von Cantor, Hilbert und Brouwer verfolgen - ein Streit, der nach den Erkenntnissen GC6dels unentschiedener ist denn je.
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Die Politik der großen Zahlen
By: Desrosières, Alain
Published by: Springer
Statistik (Staatenkunde"), Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung und die Philosophie der Wahrscheinlichkeit sind auch als siamesische Drillinge" bekannt. Das Buch analysiert den Werdegang der Statistik und zeigt Verbindungen zwischen der internalistischen Geschichte der Formalismen und Werkzeuge sowie der externalistisch orientierten Geschichte der Institutionen auf. Der Spannungsbogen erstreckt sich vom Vorabend der Franzsischen Revolution bis hin zum Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs, wobei Frankreich, Deutschland, England und die USA ausfhrlich behandelt werden. Was haben Richter und Astronomen gemeinsam? Wer waren die politischen Arithmetiker"? Was ist ein Durchschnittsmensch"? Wie ndert sich im Laufe der Zeit das, was man Realismus" nennt? Kann man vom Teil auf das Ganze schlieen? Und wenn ja, warum? Welche Rolle spielt der Franziskanerorden? Wir begegnen Adolphe Quetelet, Karl Pearson, Egon Pearson, Francis Galton, Emile Durkheim und vielen anderen. Glcksspiele, Zufall, Bayesscher Ansatz, das St. Petersburger Paradoxon, der Choleravibrio, Erblichkeit, das Galtonsche Brett, Taxonomie, Wahlprognosen, Arbeitslosigkeit und Ungleichheit, die Entstehung der Arten, die Ordnung der Dinge und die Dinge des Lebens das sind die Themen des Buches.
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Die vergessene Revolution oder die Wiedergeburt des antiken Wissens
By: Russo, Lucio
Published by: Springer
Im 3. und 2. Jahrhundert v. Chr. ereignete sich in der griechischen Welt ein wissenschaftlicher und technologischer Urknall. Schon im vorhergegangenen klassischen Zeitalter war die griechische Kultur in den Knsten, der Literatur und der Philosophie zu groen Hhen aufgestiegen; erst die Zeit eines Archimedes und eines Euklid jedoch, brachte die Entstehung von Wissenschaften in unserem Sinne. Damals entstanden hoch entwickelte Technologien, auf die man sich erst im 18. Jahrhundert wieder besinnen sollte. Gleichzeitig mit dieser wissenschaftlichen Revolution fanden auch auf vielen anderen Gebieten, wie den Knsten und der Medizin grundlegende Vernderungen statt. Ein neues Bewusstsein entstand. Was waren die Grundpfeiler dieses kometenhaften Aufstiegs der Wissenschaften vor 2.300 Jahren? Warum ist selbst unter Wissenschaftlern, Altphilologen und Historikern so wenig darber bekannt? In welcher Beziehung stehen sie zu der Entwicklung der Wissenschaften seit dem 15. Jahrhundert, wie wir sie aus der Schule kennen Was fhrte zum Ende antiker Wissenschaften? Das sind die Fragen, die in diesem Buch gestellt werden. Ihre Antworten sind von entscheidender Bedeutung auch fr Herausforderungen, vor denen wir heute stehen.
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