Remarkable Mathematicians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Remarkable Mathematicians write by Ioan James. This book was released on 2002. Remarkable Mathematicians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This 2003 book contains portrayals of sixty mathematicians, which collectively convey how mathematics developed into its modern form.
Remarkable Mathematicians
Remarkable Mathematicians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Remarkable Mathematicians write by Ioan James. This book was released on 2003-02-06. Remarkable Mathematicians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ioan James introduces and profiles sixty mathematicians from the era when mathematics was freed from its classical origins to develop into its modern form. The subjects, all born between 1700 and 1910, come from a wide range of countries, and all made important contributions to mathematics, through their ideas, their teaching, and their influence. James emphasizes their varied life stories, not the details of their mathematical achievements. The book is organized chronologically into ten chapters, each of which contains biographical sketches of six mathematicians. The men and women James has chosen to portray are representative of the history of mathematics, such that their stories, when read in sequence, convey in human terms something of the way in which mathematics developed. Ioan James is a professor at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford. He is the author of Topological Topics (Cambridge, 1983), Fibrewise Topology (Cambridge, 1989), Introduction to Uniform Spaces (Cambridge, 1990), Topological and Uniform Spaces (Springer-Verlag New York, 1999), and co-author with Michael C. Crabb of Fibrewise Homotopy Theory (Springer-Verlag New York, 1998). James is the former editor of the London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series and volume editor of numerous books. He is the organizer of the Oxford Series of Topology symposia and other conferences, and co-chairman of the Task Force for Mathematical Sciences of Campaign for Oxford.
Mathematicians
Mathematicians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mathematicians write by Mariana Cook. This book was released on 2009-06-21. Mathematicians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Photographs accompanied by autobiographical text written by each mathematician.
Mathematics and the Real World
Mathematics and the Real World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mathematics and the Real World write by Zvi Artstein. This book was released on 2014-09-02. Mathematics and the Real World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this accessible and illuminating study of how the science of mathematics developed, a veteran math researcher and educator looks at the ways in which our evolutionary makeup is both a help and a hindrance to the study of math. Artstein chronicles the discovery of important mathematical connections between mathematics and the real world from ancient times to the present. The author then describes some of the contemporary applications of mathematics—in probability theory, in the study of human behavior, and in combination with computers, which give mathematics unprecedented power. The author concludes with an insightful discussion of why mathematics, for most people, is so frustrating. He argues that the rigorous logical structure of math goes against the grain of our predisposed ways of thinking as shaped by evolution, presumably because the talent needed to cope with logical mathematics gave the human race as a whole no evolutionary advantage. With this in mind, he offers ways to overcome these innate impediments in the teaching of math.
A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts
A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts write by Jöran Friberg. This book was released on 2007-07-31. A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book analyzes the mathematical tablets from the private collection of Martin Schoyen. It includes analyses of tablets which have never been studied before. This provides new insight into Babylonian understanding of sophisticated mathematical objects. The book is carefully written and organized. The tablets are classified according to mathematical content and purpose, while drawings and pictures are provided for the most interesting tablets.
