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

    by Leo Corry ...
    Series Book 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 ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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

    by 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 ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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

    Between Geometry and Arithmetic

    by 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. ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

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

    by 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 ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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  • The Art of the Infinite

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    by Robert Kaplan, Ellen Kaplan ...
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  • The Foundations of Geometry (Illustrated)

    by 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 ... Read more

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  • Enlightening Symbols

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  • Infinity

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  • Dot, Dot, Dot: Infinity Plus God Equals Folly

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