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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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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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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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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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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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John Wallis: Writings on Music
John Wallis (1616-1703), was one of the foremost British mathematicians of the seventeenth century, and is also remembered for his important writings on grammar and logic. An interest in music theory led him to produce translations into Latin of three ancient Greek texts - those of Ptolemy, Porphyry and Bryennius - and involved him in discussions w
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The Book of Wonders
The Many Lives of Euclid’s ElementsEuclid’s Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how an ancient Greek text on mathematics – often hailed as the world’s first textbook – shaped two thousand years of art, philosophy and literature, as well as science and maths.
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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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The Book of Wonders
The Many Lives of Euclid’s ElementsEuclid’s Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how an ancient Greek text on mathematics – often hailed as the world’s first textbook – shaped two thousand years of art, philosophy and literature, as well as science and maths.
€ 34,50 -
Gunpowder and Geometry
The Life of Charles Hutton: Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific RebelAugust, 1755. Newcastle, on the north bank of the Tyne.
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The History of the History of Mathematics
Case Studies for the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth CenturiesAt a time of increasing interest in the history of mathematics, this book presents seven case studies illustrating the different ways that mathematical histories have been written since the seventeenth century, ranging from the 'historia' of John Wallis to the re-presentation of Thomas Harriot's manuscripts online.
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John Wallis: Writings on Music
John Wallis (1616-1703), was one of the foremost British mathematicians of the seventeenth century, and is also remembered for his important writings on grammar and logic. An interest in music theory led him to produce translations into Latin of three ancient Greek texts - those of Ptolemy.
€ 221,95