This book brings together diverse recent developments exploring philosophy of mathematics in education. The unique combination of ethnomathematics, philosophy, history, education, statistics and mathematics offers ...
Continue Reading →What does mathematics have to do with poetry? Seemingly, nothing. Mathematics deals with abstractions while poetry with emotions. And yet, the two share something essential: ...
Continue Reading →Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition is a book by Greek composer, architect, and engineer Iannis Xenakis in which he explains his motivation, philosophy, ...
Continue Reading →The Doctrine of Chances was the first textbook on probability theory, written by 18th-century French mathematician Abraham de Moivre and first published in 1718.[1] De ...
Continue Reading →Jacob Bernoulli’s Ars Conjectandi, published posthumously in Latin in 1713 by the Thurneysen Brothers Press in Basel, is the founding document of mathematical probability. Here, ...
Continue Reading → Girard Desargues was a French mathematician and engineer, who is considered one of the founders of projective geometry. Desargues’ theorem, the Desargues graph, and ...
Continue Reading →It is the culmination of Greek geometry and, in turn, provided a basis for the work of modern mathematicians and scientists such as Vieta, Descartes, ...
Continue Reading →Although not so well known today, Book 4 of Pappus’ Collection is one of the most important and influential mathematical texts from antiquity, both because ...
Continue Reading →Archimedes was the greatest scientist of antiquity and one of the greatest of all time. This book is Volume I of the first authoritative translation ...
Continue Reading →This is the second volume of the first fully-fledged English translation of the works of Archimedes – antiquity’s greatest scientist and one of the most ...
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