Delving into previously undisclosed archival sources, this monograph offers a meticulously researched portrayal of Italian Jewish mathematicians amidst the turmoil sparked by the 1938 Italian Racial Laws. Forced migration due to fascist anti-Semit...Lasīt vairāk
This volume brings together scholars across various domains of the history and philosophy of mathematics, investigating duality as a multi-faceted phenomenon. Encompassing both systematic analysis and historical examination, the book endeavors to...Lasīt vairāk
»Philosophy of Mathematics« is understood, in this book, as an effort to clarify such questions that mathematics itself raises but cannot answer with its own methods. These include, for example, questions about the ontological statu...Lasīt vairāk
»Philosophy of Mathematics« is understood, in this book, as an effort to clarify such questions that mathematics itself raises but cannot answer with its own methods. These include, for example, questions about the ontological statu...Lasīt vairāk
Drawing on published works, correspondence and manuscripts, this book offers the most comprehensive reconstruction of Boscovichs theory within its historical context. It explains the genesis and theoretical as well as epistemological under...Lasīt vairāk
Afin de redresser la situation, un nouveau ministčre de lAir lance alors, en 1929, un ambitieux programme en faveur de la recherche en mécanique des fluides, incluant la création de quatre instituts et cinq centres denseignement dans les facultés...Lasīt vairāk
Drawing on published works, correspondence and manuscripts, this book offers the most comprehensive reconstruction of Boscovichs theory within its historical context. It explains the genesis and theoretical as well as epistemological under...Lasīt vairāk
This monograph presents a groundbreaking scholarly treatment of the German mathematician Jost Bürgi’s original work on logarithms, Arithmetische und Geometrische Progreß Tabulen. It provides the first-ever English translation o...Lasīt vairāk
While it is well known that the Delian problems are impossible to solve with a straightedge and compass for example, it is impossible to construct a segment whose length is ?2 with these instruments the Italian mathematician Margherita Beloch...Lasīt vairāk
The first volume in this rendition set starts with a short introduction to historical metrology as a scientific discipline and goes on with an anthology of ancient and modern measurement systems of all kind, scientific measures, units of time, wei...Lasīt vairāk
This second volume of Gyllenboks encyclopaedia of historical metrology comprises the first part of the compendium of measurement systems and currencies of all sovereign states of the modern World (A-I).Units of measurement are of vital imp...Lasīt vairāk
This third volume of Gyllenboks encyclopaedia of historical metrology comprises the second part of the compendium of measurement systems and currencies of all sovereign states of the modern World (J-Z).Units of measurement are of vital imp...Lasīt vairāk
This first of three volumes starts with a short introduction to historical metrology as a scientific discipline and goes on with an anthology of acient and modern measurement systems of all kind, scientific measures, units of time, weights, curren...Lasīt vairāk
Who was Nicolas Rashevsky? To answer that question, this book draws on Rashevskys unexplored personal archival papers and shares interviews with his family, students and friends, as well as discussions with biologists and mathematical biologists,...Lasīt vairāk
The book provides new material on the history of non-Euclidean geometry, stressing the previously neglected role of Leibniz in these developments.This volume will be of interest to historians in mathematics, philosophy or logic, as well as mathematic...Lasīt vairāk
The main focus of this book is on the interconnection of two unorthodox scientific ideas, the varying-gravity hypothesis and the expanding-earth hypothesis. As such, it provides a fascinating insight into a nearly forgotten chapter in both the his...Lasīt vairāk
This third volume of Gyllenboks encyclopaedia of historical metrology comprises the second part of the compendium of measurement systems and currencies of all sovereign states of the modern World (J-Z).Units of measurement are of vital imp...Lasīt vairāk
This second volume of Gyllenboks encyclopaedia of historical metrology comprises the first part of the compendium of measurement systems and currencies of all sovereign states of the modern World (A-I).Units of measurement are of vital imp...Lasīt vairāk
While it is well known that the Delian problems are impossible to solve with a straightedge and compass for example, it is impossible to construct a segment whose length is cube root of 2 with these instruments the discovery o...Lasīt vairāk
This first of three volumes starts with a short introduction to historical metrology as a scientific discipline and goes on with an anthology of acient and modern measurement systems of all kind, scientific measures, units of time, weights, curren...Lasīt vairāk
