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Télécharger le livre :  History of Mathematics and Its Contexts
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History of Mathematics and Its Contexts


Andrea Verdugo Rohrer , Joerg Zender


This book celebrates Gert Schubring's 80th birthday and honors his impactful contributions to the field of history of mathematics and its education. Recognized with the prestigious Hans Freudenthal Award in 2019, Schubring's academic work sets the tone for this...

Parution : 2024-11-01
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Télécharger le livre :  The Splendors and Miseries of Martingales
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The Splendors and Miseries of Martingales


Laurent Mazliak , Glenn Shafer


Over the past eighty years, martingales have become central in the mathematics of randomness. They appear in the general theory of stochastic processes, in the algorithmic theory of randomness, and in some branches of mathematical statistics. Yet little has been written...

Parution : 2022-10-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Model and Mathematics: From the 19th to the 21st Century
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Model and Mathematics: From the 19th to the 21st Century


Michael Friedman , Karin Krauthausen


This open access book collects the historical and medial perspectives of a systematic and epistemological analysis of the complicated, multifaceted relationship between model and mathematics, ranging from, for example, the physical mathematical models of the 19th...

Parution : 2022-08-08
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Télécharger le livre :  In Foreign Lands: The Migration of Scientists for Political or Economic Reasons
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In Foreign Lands: The Migration of Scientists for Political or Economic Reasons


Maria Teresa Borgato , Christine Phili


This proceedings volume collects the stories of mathematicians and scientists who have spent and developed parts of their careers and life in countries other than those of their origin. The reasons may have been different in different periods but were often driven by...

Parution : 2022-04-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Mathematical Communities in the Reconstruction After the Great War 1918–1928
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Mathematical Communities in the Reconstruction After the Great War 1918–1928


Laurent Mazliak , Rossana Tazzioli


This book is a consequence of the international meeting organized in Marseilles in November 2018 devoted to the aftermath of the Great War for mathematical communities. It features selected original research presented at the meeting offering a new perspective on a...

Parution : 2021-03-27
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Télécharger le livre :  The History of Water Management in the Iberian Peninsula
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The History of Water Management in the Iberian Peninsula


Ana Duarte Rodrigues , Carmen Toribio Marín


This volume approaches the history of water in the Iberian Peninsula in a novel way, by linking it to the ongoing international debate on water crisis and solutions to overcome the lack of water in the Mediterranean.What water devices were found? What were the models...

Parution : 2020-03-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Archimedes in the 21st Century
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Archimedes in the 21st Century


Chris Rorres


?This book is a collection of papers presented at the “Archimedes in the 21st Century” world conference, held at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in 2013. This conference focused on the enduring and continuing influence of Archimedes in our modern world,...

Parution : 2017-08-26
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Télécharger le livre :  From Classical to Modern Algebraic Geometry
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From Classical to Modern Algebraic Geometry


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This book commemorates the 150th birthday of Corrado Segre, one of the founders of the Italian School of Algebraic Geometry and a crucial figure in the history of Algebraic Geometry. It is the outcome of a conference held in Turin, Italy.One of the book's most unique...

Parution : 2017-04-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Historiography of Mathematics in the 19th and 20th Centuries
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Historiography of Mathematics in the 19th and 20th Centuries


Henrik Kragh Sørensen , Volker R. Remmert , Martina R. Schneider


This book addresses the historiography of mathematics as it was practiced during the 19th and 20th centuries by paying special attention to the cultural contexts in which the history of mathematics was written. In the 19th century, the history of mathematics was...

Parution : 2016-12-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Images of Italian Mathematics in France
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Images of Italian Mathematics in France


Frédéric Brechenmacher , Guillaume Jouve , Laurent Mazliak , Rossana Tazzioli


The contributions in this proceedings volume offer a new perspective on the mathematical ties between France and Italy, and reveal how mathematical developments in these two countries affected one another.The focus is above all on the Peninsula’s influence on French...

Parution : 2016-10-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Cultures of Mathematics and Logic
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Cultures of Mathematics and Logic


Shier Ju , Benedikt Löwe , Thomas Müller , Yun Xie


This book gathers the proceedings of the conference "Cultures of Mathematics and Logic," held in Guangzhou, China. The event was the third in a series of interdisciplinary, international conferences emphasizing the cultural components of philosophy of mathematics and...

Parution : 2016-08-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Gardens, Knowledge and the Sciences in the Early Modern Period
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Gardens, Knowledge and the Sciences in the Early Modern Period


Hubertus Fischer , Volker R. Remmert , Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn


This volume focuses on the outstanding contributions made by botany and the mathematical sciences to the genesis and development of early modern garden art and garden culture. The many facets of the mathematical sciences and botany point to the increasingly “scientific”...

Parution : 2016-06-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Mathematical Cultures
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Mathematical Cultures


Brendan Larvor


This collection presents significant contributions from an international network project on mathematical cultures, including essays from leading scholars in the history and philosophy of mathematics and mathematics education.? Mathematics has universal standards of...

Parution : 2016-05-25
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Télécharger le livre :  A Delicate Balance: Global Perspectives on Innovation and Tradition in the History of Mathematics
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A Delicate Balance: Global Perspectives on Innovation and Tradition in the History of Mathematics


Wann-Sheng Horng , David E. Rowe


Joseph W. Dauben, a leading authority on the history of mathematics in Europe, China, and North America, has played a pivotal role in promoting international scholarship over the last forty years. This Festschrift volume, showcasing recent historical research by leading...

Parution : 2015-05-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Mathematizing Space
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Mathematizing Space


Vincenzo De Risi


This book collects the papers of the conference held in Berlin, Germany, 27-29 August 2012, on 'Space, Geometry and the Imagination from Antiquity to the Modern Age'. The conference was a joint effort by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin) and...

Parution : 2015-01-31
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