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Results for 'benjamin wardhaugh'
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Humans, History and the Infinite Lives of NumbersPraise for The Book of Wonders: ‘An astonishingly readable and informative history of the greatest mathematical bestseller of all time, from ancient Greece to dark energy. The writing is vivid and the stories are gripping. Highly recommended!’ Ian Stewart, author of Significant Figures ‘Benjamin Wardhaugh is an excellent storyteller and his collected short story approach to the history of The Elements works splendidly… simultaneously educational, entertaining and illuminating … A highly desirable read for all those, both professional and amateur, who interest themselves in the histories of mathematics, science and knowledge … over almost two and a half millennia’ Thony Christie, The Renaissance Mathematicus Praise for Gunpowder and Geometry: ‘Meticulous yet lively biography, even those who have never heard of its subject could hardly disagree’ Sunday Times ‘As this book argues persuasively, he changed a whole culture: by simple dint of his genial celebrity as well as a europhile passion for developments in France and elsewhere, he helped to elevate mathematics to a rank equal with the other sciences. It is impossible not to warm to such a man in Wardhaugh’s wryly sympathetic telling … Spirited and elegantly erudite’ Daily Telegraph
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Poor Robin's Prophecies
From the reign of Charles II to the early 19th century, a curious Almanac - part 'teach-yourself mathematics', part political satire - promoted the use of science in everyday life and trades. Benjamin Wardaugh tells the story of the rumbustious 'Poor Robin of Saffron Walden', and the rise of popular science in Georgian England.
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Zählen. Die Geschichte von den Anfängen der Mathematik
WAS BEDEUTET ES, ZU ZÄHLEN? Nach eins kommt zwei. Das ist nur eines der spektakulären Zählsysteme, die die Menschheit hervorgebracht hat. Aber wie kamen wir darauf? Wie hat das Zählen Gesellschaften geprägt - und warum ist es bis heute wichtig? Mitreißend erzählt Benjamin Wardhaugh die Geschichte des Zählens von der Steinzeit bis ins digitale Zeitalter. Von den ersten Kerben in Knochen über antike Rechenbretter und der Erfindung der 'arabischen Ziffern' bis zum Likes-Zählen koreanischer Vlogger. Es ist die bewegende Geschichte unserer Bemühungen, in einer widerspenstigen Welt Ordnungen zu erkennen - und eine Einladung, zu entdecken, wie spannend und vielfältig Mathematik sein kann. 'Sorgfältig recherchiert, zugleich lebendig erzählt.'The Sunday Times
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Wie liest man historische mathematische Texte?
Warum ist er heute noch relevant? Anhand zahlreicher konkreter Beispiele – von Fermat, Newton und Lagrange, um nur einige zu nennen – lehrt dieses Buch, historische Texte kritisch zu verstehen und zu analysieren.
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Thomas Salmon: Writings on Music
Volume I: An Essay to the Advancement of Musick and the Ensuing Controversy, 1672-3Thomas Salmon (1647-1706) is remembered today for the fury with which Matthew Locke greeted his first foray into musical writing, the Essay to the Advancement of Musick (1672), and the near-farcical level to which the subsequent pamphlet dispute quickly descended. Beneath the unedifying invective employed by Salmon, Locke and their supporters howev
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Thomas Salmon: Writings on Music
Volume II: A Proposal to Perform Musick and Related Writings, 1685-1706This is the second volume in a two-part set on the writings of Thomas Salmon. Salmon (1647-1706) is remembered today for proposing a radical reform of musical notation (these writings are the subject of Volume I). Later in his life Salmon devoted his attention to an exploration of the possible reform of musical pitch and raised questions about the
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Humans, History and the Infinite Lives of NumbersPraise for The Book of Wonders: ‘An astonishingly readable and informative history of the greatest mathematical bestseller of all time, from ancient Greece to dark energy. The writing is vivid and the stories are gripping. Highly recommended!’ Ian Stewart, author of Significant Figures ‘Benjamin Wardhaugh is an excellent storyteller and his collected short story approach to the history of The Elements works splendidly… simultaneously educational, entertaining and illuminating … A highly desirable read for all those, both professional and amateur, who interest themselves in the histories of mathematics, science and knowledge … over almost two and a half millennia’ Thony Christie, The Renaissance Mathematicus Praise for Gunpowder and Geometry: ‘Meticulous yet lively biography, even those who have never heard of its subject could hardly disagree’ Sunday Times ‘As this book argues persuasively, he changed a whole culture: by simple dint of his genial celebrity as well as a europhile passion for developments in France and elsewhere, he helped to elevate mathematics to a rank equal with the other sciences. It is impossible not to warm to such a man in Wardhaugh’s wryly sympathetic telling … Spirited and elegantly erudite’ Daily Telegraph
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Encounters with Euclid
How an Ancient Greek Geometry Text Shaped the WorldBenjamin Wardhaugh is a historian of mathematics. He is the author of Gunpowder and Geometry: The Life of Charles Hutton, Pit Boy, Mathematician, and Scientific Rebel and How to Read Historical Mathematics (Princeton) and the editor of A Wealth of Numbers: An Anthology of 500 Years of Popular Mathematics Writing (Princeton).
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Reading Mathematics in Early Modern Europe
Studies in the Production, Collection, and Use of Mathematical BooksThe volume contains eleven case studies exploring the production, collection, and use of early modern mathematical texts across different social milieus.
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Begegnungen mit Euklid - Wie die 'Elemente' die Welt veränderten
Euklid auf den Fersen - eine grandios erzählte Reise zu den Anfängen der Mathematik Seit dreiundzwanzig Jahrhunderten prägen Euklids »Elemente« die Welt. Die Zusammenstellung von Fakten über den Raum und seine Eigenschaften - Linien und Figuren, Zahlen und Verhältnisse - bestimmen bis heute Philosophie, Kunst, Musik, Literatur und Mathematik. Dreizehn Bände, die nicht nur Wissenschaftsgeschichte schrieben, sondern auch zu ersten globalen Bestsellern wurden. Benjamin Wardhaugh entstaubt Euklids Vermächtnis und begibt sich auf eine Zeitreise. Von Ptolemaios bis Isaac Newton, von Lewis Carroll bis Max Ernst - hautnah erleben wir den Einfluss der »Elemente« auf die jeweilige Zeit und ihre Protagonisten. Die spannende Geschichte über das Grundlagenwerk menschlichen Wissens.
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Encounters with Euclid
How an Ancient Greek Geometry Text Shaped the World‘An astonishingly readable and informative history of the greatest mathematical bestseller of all time … The writing is vivid and the stories are gripping. Highly recommended ’ IAN STEWART, AUTHOR OF SIGNIFICANT FIGURES
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Encounters with Euclid
How an Ancient Greek Geometry Text Shaped the WorldBenjamin Wardhaugh is a historian of mathematics. He is the author of Gunpowder and Geometry: The Life of Charles Hutton, Pit Boy, Mathematician, and Scientific Rebel and How to Read Historical Mathematics (Princeton) and the editor of A Wealth of Numbers: An Anthology of 500 Years of Popular Mathematics Writing (Princeton).
€ 34,50