(Paperback)
By: Tom Chivers
ISBN: 9781399604055
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 24th April 2025
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A fascinating intellectual history that takes a comparatively little-known but important idea and shows how it affects huge areas of our lives
(Paperback)
By: Tom Chivers
ISBN: 9781399604048
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2024
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A fascinating intellectual history that takes a comparatively little-known but important idea and shows how it affects huge areas of our lives
(Hardback)
By: Tom Chivers
ISBN: 9781399604031
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2024
UK Publication Date: 25th April 2024
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A fascinating intellectual history that takes a comparatively little-known but important idea and shows how it affects huge areas of our lives
(Paperback)
By: Julian Havil
ISBN: 9780691178103
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Matt Parker
ISBN: 9780141989143
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
UK Publication Date: 5th March 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Edward Frenkel
ISBN: 9780465064953
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2014
UK Publication Date: 9th September 2014
Publisher: Basic Books
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"Fascinating...Frenkel deftly takes the reader from the beginnings of this mathematical symphony to the far reaches of our current understanding." -Nature
(Paperback)
By: Milo Beckman
ISBN: 9780141996325
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 3rd February 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Robert Natanek
ISBN: 9781743799482
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
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(Paperback, Third Edition)
By: George Gheverghese Joseph
ISBN: 9780691135267
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2011
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Ranging from the Ishango Bone of central Africa and the Inca quipu of South America to the dawn of modern mathematics, this book points out that human beings everywhere have been capable of advanced and innovative mathematical thinking. It shows us the deep influence that the Egyptians and Babylonians had on the Greeks.
(Paperback)
By: Ken Steiglitz
ISBN: 9780691229027
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2021
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Julian Havil
ISBN: 9780691163536
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The ancient Greeks discovered them, but it wasn't until the nineteenth century that irrational numbers were properly understood and rigorously defined, and even today not all their mysteries have been revealed. In The Irrationals, the first popular and comprehensive book on the subject, Julian Havil tells the story of irrational numbers and the mat
(Paperback)
By: Julian Havil
ISBN: 9780691247663
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2023
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Fabio Toscano
ISBN: 9780691183671
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2020
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Fabio Toscano
ISBN: 9780691264882
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2025
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Kate Kitagawa
ISBN: 9780241994351
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
UK Publication Date: 29th August 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Glenn Shafer
ISBN: 9780691100425
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 1976
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Both in science and in practical affairs we reason by combining facts only inconclusively supported by evidence. Building on an abstract understanding of this process of combination, this book constructs a theory of epistemic probability. It opens with a critique of the well-known Bayesian theory of epistemic probability.
(Paperback)
By: Joseph Warren Dauben
ISBN: 9780691602912
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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One of the most prominent mathematicians of the twentieth century, Abraham Robinson discovered and developed nonstandard analysis, a rigorous theory of infinitesimals that he used to unite mathematical logic with the larger body of historic and modern mathematics. In this first biography of Robinson, Joseph Dauben reveals the mathematician's person
(Hardback)
By: Joseph Warren Dauben
ISBN: 9780691632360
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Cecil Hastings
ISBN: 9780691626949
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Numerical analysts and computer operators in all fields will welcome this publication in book form of Cecil Hastings' well-known approximations for digital computers, formerly issued in loose sheets and available only to a limited number of specialists. In a new method that combines judgment and intuition with mathematics, Mr. Hasting has evolved a
(Hardback)
By: Cecil Hastings
ISBN: 9780691653105
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis
ISBN: 9780691607771
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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This classic study by the eminent Dutch historian of science E. J. Dijksterhuis (1892-1965) presents the work of the Greek mathematician and mechanical engineer to the modern reader. With meticulous scholarship, Dijksterhuis surveys the whole range of evidence on Archimedes' life and the 2000-year history of the manuscripts and editions of the text
(Hardback)
By: Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis
ISBN: 9780691636290
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: David S. Richeson
ISBN: 9780691154572
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2012
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Leonhard Euler's polyhedron formula describes the structure of many objects - from soccer balls and gemstones to Buckminster Fuller's buildings and giant all-carbon molecules. Yet Euler's formula is so simple it can be explained to a child. This title tells the story of this indispensable mathematical idea.
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By: Harry J. Gensler
ISBN: 9780819138699
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 1984
Publisher: University Press of America
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This helpful volume explains and proves Godel's theorem, which states that arithmetic cannot be reduced to any axiomatic system. Written simply and directly, this book is intended for the student and general reader and presumes no specialized knowledge of mathematics or logic.
