La Géométrie was published in 1637 as an appendix to Discours de la méthode (Discourse on the Method), written by René Descartes. In the ...
Continue Reading →A collection of Alberti’s four mathematical treatises, intended to capture Alberti’s unique combination of formal and informal writing, will be available for the first time ...
Continue Reading →This scientific work focuses on computer-aided computational models in architecture. The author initially investigates established computational models and then expands these with newer ...
Continue Reading →Why do the Nuer stipulate forty cattle in brideprice? Why is the number ten so important in North American mythology? What does the ...
Continue Reading →Im Jahr 1913 publizierte der Mathematiker Andrej A. Markov eine kurze, aber – wie sich zeigen sollte – bahnbrechende Abhandlung, die der Berechenbarkeit ...
Continue Reading →In this third installment of his classic ‘Foundations’ trilogy, Michel Serres takes on the history of geometry and mathematics. Even more broadly, Geometry ...
Continue Reading →Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica is a work in three books by Isaac Newton, in Latin, first published 5 July 1687. After annotating and ...
Continue Reading →In 2000, Keith Devlin set out to research the life and legacy of the medieval mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, popularly known as Fibonacci, ...
Continue Reading →First English translation of Einstein’s theory of relativity. In this work Einstein intended, as far as possible, to give an exact insight into ...
Continue Reading →Before the mid-seventeenth century, scholars generally agreed that it was impossible to predict something by calculating mathematical outcomes. One simply could not put ...
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