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By: Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze
ISBN: 9780691140414
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The emigration of mathematicians from Europe during the Nazi era signaled an irrevocable and important historical shift for the international mathematics world. This book presents an account of this exodus. It describes the flight of more than 140 mathematicians, their reasons for leaving, and the political and economic issues involved.
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By: Sanford L. Segal
ISBN: 9780691164632
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Contrary to popular belief--and despite the expulsion, emigration, or death of many German mathematicians--substantial mathematics was produced in Germany during 1933-1945. In this landmark social history of the mathematics community in Nazi Germany, Sanford Segal examines how the Nazi years affected the personal and academic lives of those German
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By: Eleanor Robson
ISBN: 9780691091822
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2008
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Traces the origins and development of mathematics in the ancient Middle East, from its earliest beginnings in the fourth millennium BCE to the end of indigenous intellectual culture in the second century BCE when cuneiform writing was gradually abandoned.
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By: George Szpiro
ISBN: 9780691209081
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2021
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Jeremy Gray
ISBN: 9780691136103
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2008
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Traces the growth of mathematical modernism from its roots in problem solving and theory to its interactions with physics, philosophy, theology, psychology, and ideas about real and artificial languages. This book is suitable for mathematicians and historians.
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By: Salomon Bochner
ISBN: 9780691642505
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Salomon Bochner
ISBN: 9780691614939
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The central theme of these essays is the nature and role of mathematics, its growth and spread, and its involvement with ever-wider areas of knowledge. The author attempts to determine the decisive and creative aspects of the abstractness" of mathematics which have made it the dominant intellectual force that it is. He frequently confronts the math
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By: Victor J. Katz
ISBN: 9780691204079
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2020
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Victor J. Katz
ISBN: 9780691149059
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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What is algebra For some, it is an abstract language of x's and y's. For mathematics majors and professional mathematicians, it is a world of axiomatically defined constructs like groups, rings, and fields. This title considers how these two seemingly different types of algebra evolved and how they relate.
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By: Keith Devlin
ISBN: 9781408822487
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The story of the man who introduced Hindu-Arabic numerals and the concept of zero to Europe that transformed business in the late Middle Ages and paved the way for the commercial and cultural explosion of the Renaissance
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By: Calvin Clawson
ISBN: 9780738208350
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2003
Publisher: INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
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A fascinating look at how mathematics has influenced human civilization and evolution throughout history.
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By: Karen Hunger Parshall
ISBN: 9780691197555
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Karen Hunger Parshall
ISBN: 9780691235240
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Lynn M. Osen
ISBN: 9780262650090
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 1975
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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Mathematicians, science historians, and general readers will find this book a lively history; women will find it a reminder of a proud tradition and a challenge to take their rightful place in academic life today.
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By: Robert Hannigan
ISBN: 9780008398576
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 24th April 2025
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Best Books of 2024, The Economist
From the codebreakers and problem solvers, to the engineers, mathematicians and other problem-solvers what the secret world can teach us about performance and creativity
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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
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By: Paulina Rowinska
ISBN: 9781035007066
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2025
UK Publication Date: 5th June 2025
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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A gripping exploration of how cartography shapes our world and the impact of maps on our everyday lives.
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By: Avner Ash
ISBN: 9780691163505
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Elliptic Tales describes the latest developments in number theory by looking at one of the most exciting unsolved problems in contemporary mathematics--the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture. In this book, Avner Ash and Robert Gross guide readers through the mathematics they need to understand this captivating problem. The key to the conjecture
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By: David S. Richeson
ISBN: 9780691191379
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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"First printed in 2008. New Princeton Science Library edition, with a new preface by the author, 2019"--title page verso.
(Hardback)
By: Keith Devlin
ISBN: 9780691174860
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Keith Devlin
ISBN: 9780691192307
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Julian Havil
ISBN: 9780691178103
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Kim Plofker
ISBN: 9780691120676
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Based on research in Sanskrit sources, this title chronicles the development of mathematical techniques and texts in South Asia from antiquity to the early modern period.
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By: Eli Maor
ISBN: 9780691176901
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2018
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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