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  • Pioneering Israeli Women in Electronic Computing (1953—1970)

    de Raya Leviathan, Leo Corry ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book offers a journey into the history of pioneering Israeli women in electronic computing and explores the impact these women had on the annals of Israeli computing history. With the primary setting being the Weizmann Institute of Science, where the genesis of computing in Israel took place, their stories come to life through the lens of personal narratives, and their personal stories ... Leer más

    $53.99 USD

  • Chaim L. Pekeris and the Art of Applying Mathematics with WEIZAC, 1955–1963

    de Leo Corry, Raya Leviathan ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book describes the groundbreaking work of Chaim Leib Pekeris and his collaborators. Between 1955 and 1963 they used the first electronic computer built in Israel, the Weizmann Automatic Computer (WEIZAC), to develop powerful numerical methods that helped achieve new and accurate solutions of the Boltzmann equation, calculate energy levels of the helium atom, produce detailed geophysical and ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Distributivity-like Results in the Medieval Traditions of Euclid's Elements

    Between Geometry and Arithmetic

    de Leo Corry ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book provides a fresh view on an important and largely overlooked aspect of the Euclidean traditions in the medieval mathematical texts, particularly concerning the interrelations between geometry and arithmetic, and the rise of algebraic modes of thought. It appeals to anyone interested in the history of mathematics in general and in history of medieval and early modern science. ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • WEIZAC: An Israeli Pioneering Adventure in Electronic Computing (1945–1963)

    de Leo Corry, Raya Leviathan ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    The book tells the unique story of WEIZAC, an early computer built by a “new nation” in the early 1950s. It was created in Israel, even though the feasibility of this project was actually close to null when it was initially conceived, in 1946, and, unlike most of the early computer projects, was privately financed mainly by the Jewish world community. The book draws on a wealth of documents and ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • A Brief History of Numbers

    de Leo Corry ...
    The world around us is saturated with numbers. They are a fundamental pillar of our modern society, and accepted and used with hardly a second thought. But how did this state of affairs come to be? In this book, Leo Corry tells the story behind the idea of number from the early days of the Pythagoreans, up until the turn of the twentieth century. He presents an overview of how numbers were handled ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Breve storia dei numeri

    de Leo Corry ...
    Una storia della matematica accessibile ed esaustiva che affronta l'idea di numero e il sistema numerico nella loro evoluzione europea a partire dall'antica Grecia.Leo Corry spiega come i numeri siano stati concepiti dai Pitagorici, e prima ancora da Egizi e Babilonesi, e segue il loro sviluppo nella matematica classica greca, nella matematica importata dall'Islam, in quella europea del Medioevo e ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • British Versions of Book II of Euclid’s Elements: Geometry, Arithmetic, Algebra (1550–1750)

    de Leo Corry ...
    Series Libro 2 - History (R0)
    This book discusses the changing conceptions about the relationship between geometry and arithmetic within the Euclidean tradition that developed in the British context of the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Its focus is on Book II of the Elements and the ways in which algebraic symbolism and methods, especially as recently introduced by François Viète and his followers, took center stage as ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

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    de Carl B. Boyer, Uta C. Merzbach ...
    The updated new edition of the classic and comprehensive guide to the history of mathematicsFor more than forty years, A History of Mathematics has been the reference of choice for those looking to learn about the fascinating history of humankind’s relationship with numbers, shapes, and patterns. This revised edition features up-to-date coverage of topics such as Fermat’s Last Theorem and the ... Leer más

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  • The Art of the Infinite

    The Pleasures of Mathematics

    de Robert Kaplan, Ellen Kaplan ...
    A witty, conversational, and accessible tour of math's profoundest mysteries.Mathematical symbols, for mathematicians, store worlds of meaning, leap continents and centuries. But we need not master symbols to grasp the magnificent abstractions they represent, and to which all art aspires. Through language, anyone can come to delight in the works of mathematical art, which are among our kind's ... Leer más

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  • The Foundations of Geometry (Illustrated)

    de David Hilbert, PH. D. ...
    The Foundations of GeometryGeometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the axioms of geometry. The choice of the axioms and the investigation of their relations to one another is a problem which, since the time of Euclid, has been discussed in numerous excellent memoirs to be found in ... Leer más

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  • Enlightening Symbols

    A Short History of Mathematical Notation and Its Hidden Powers

    de Joseph Mazur ...
    "[A] fascinating narrative. . . . This is a nuanced, intelligently framed chronicle . . . In a word: enlightening." —George Szpiro, NatureWhile all of us regularly use basic math symbols such as those for plus, minus, and equals, few of us know that many of these symbols weren't available before the sixteenth century. What did mathematicians rely on for their work before then? And how did ... Leer más

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  • The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers

    de David Wells ...
    Why was the number of Hardy's taxi significant? Why does Graham's number need its own notation? How many grains of sand would fill the universe? What is the connection between the Golden Ratio and sunflowers? Why is 999 more than a distress call? All these questions and a host more are answered in this fascinating book, which has now been newly revised, with nearly 200 extra entries and some 250 ... Leer más

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