Historia Scientiarum

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132652624

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Historia Scientiarum by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Interdisciplinary research
ISBN : IND:30000093001869

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Theoria Et Historia Scientiarum by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gilbert Tournoy,Dirk Sacré,Monique Mund-Dopchie,Jan Papy
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9789058676924

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Humanistica Lovaniensia by Gilbert Tournoy,Dirk Sacré,Monique Mund-Dopchie,Jan Papy Pdf

As well as presenting articles on Neo-Latin topics, the annual journal Humanistica Lovaniensia is a major source for critical editions of Neo-Latin texts with translations and commentaries. Please visit www.lup.be for the full table of contents.

Author : Ruth Hagengruber
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9400720939

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Emilie du Châtelet between Leibniz and Newton by Ruth Hagengruber Pdf

Emilie du Châtelet was one of the most influential woman philosophers of the Enlightenment. Her writings on natural philosophy, physics, and mechanics had a decisive impact on important scientific debates of the 18th century. Particularly, she took an innovative and outstanding position in the controversy between Newton and Leibniz, one of the fundamental scientific discourses of that time. The contributions in this volume focus on this "Leibnitian turn". They analyze the nature and motivation of Emilie du Châtelet's synthesis of Newtonian and Leibnitian philosophy. Apart from the Institutions Physiques they deal with Emilie du Châtelet's annotated translation of Isaac Newton's Principia. The chapters presented here collectively demonstrate that her work was an essential contribution to the mediation between empiricist and rationalist positions in the history of science.

Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1584 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Medicine
ISBN : OSU:32435028638286

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Index of NLM Serial Titles by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) Pdf

A keyword listing of serial titles currently received by the National Library of Medicine.

Author : Peter Pesic
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004-02-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0262661829

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Abel's Proof by Peter Pesic Pdf

The intellectual and human story of a mathematical proof that transformed our ideas about mathematics. In 1824 a young Norwegian named Niels Henrik Abel proved conclusively that algebraic equations of the fifth order are not solvable in radicals. In this book Peter Pesic shows what an important event this was in the history of thought. He also presents it as a remarkable human story. Abel was twenty-one when he self-published his proof, and he died five years later, poor and depressed, just before the proof started to receive wide acclaim. Abel's attempts to reach out to the mathematical elite of the day had been spurned, and he was unable to find a position that would allow him to work in peace and marry his fiancé. But Pesic's story begins long before Abel and continues to the present day, for Abel's proof changed how we think about mathematics and its relation to the "real" world. Starting with the Greeks, who invented the idea of mathematical proof, Pesic shows how mathematics found its sources in the real world (the shapes of things, the accounting needs of merchants) and then reached beyond those sources toward something more universal. The Pythagoreans' attempts to deal with irrational numbers foreshadowed the slow emergence of abstract mathematics. Pesic focuses on the contested development of algebra—which even Newton resisted—and the gradual acceptance of the usefulness and perhaps even beauty of abstractions that seem to invoke realities with dimensions outside human experience. Pesic tells this story as a history of ideas, with mathematical details incorporated in boxes. The book also includes a new annotated translation of Abel's original proof.

Author : Jan Borm,Joanna Kodzik
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527562769

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German Representations of the Far North (17th-19th Centuries) by Jan Borm,Joanna Kodzik Pdf

German travellers, explorers, missionaries and scholars produced significant new knowledge about the Arctic in Europe and elsewhere from the 17th until the 19th century. However, until now, no English-language study or collective volume has been dedicated to their representations of the Arctic. Possibly due to linguistic barriers, this corpus has not been sufficiently taken into account in transnational and circumpolar approaches to the fast-growing field of Arctic Studies. This volume serves to heighten awareness about the importance of these writings in view of the history of the Far North. The chapters gathered here offer critical readings of manuscripts and publications, including travelogues, natural histories of the Arctic, newspaper articles and scholarly texts based on first-hand observations, as well as works of fiction. The sources are considered in their historical context, as political, religious, social, economic and cultural aspects are discussed in relation to discourses about the Arctic in general. The volume opens with a spirited preface by Professor Jean Malaurie, France’s most distinguished Arctic specialist and author of The Last Kings of Thule (1955).

Author : J”ran Friberg
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9789812701121

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Unexpected Links Between Egyptian and Babylonian Mathematics by J”ran Friberg Pdf

Mesopotamian mathematics is known from a great number of cuneiform texts, most of them Old Babylonian, some Late Babylonian or pre-Old-Babylonian, and has been intensively studied during the last couple of decades. In contrast to this Egyptian mathematics is known from only a small number of papyrus texts, and the few books and papers that have been written about Egyptian mathematical papyri have mostly reiterated the same old presentations and interpretations of the texts. In this book, it is shown that the methods developed by the author for the close study of mathematical cuneiform texts can also be successfully applied to all kinds of Egyptian mathematical texts, hieratic, demotic, or Greek-Egyptian. At the same time, comparisons of a large number of individual Egyptian mathematical exercises with Babylonian parallels yield many new insights into the nature of Egyptian mathematics and show that Egyptian and Babylonian mathematics display greater similarities than expected.

Author : C. Sasaki
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9789401712255

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Descartes’s Mathematical Thought by C. Sasaki Pdf

Covering both the history of mathematics and of philosophy, Descartes's Mathematical Thought reconstructs the intellectual career of Descartes most comprehensively and originally in a global perspective including the history of early modern China and Japan. Especially, it shows what the concept of "mathesis universalis" meant before and during the period of Descartes and how it influenced the young Descartes. In fact, it was the most fundamental mathematical discipline during the seventeenth century, and for Descartes a key notion which may have led to his novel mathematics of algebraic analysis.

Author : Jens Høyrup
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781475736854

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Lengths, Widths, Surfaces by Jens Høyrup Pdf

In this examination of the Babylonian cuneiform "algebra" texts, based on a detailed investigation of the terminology and discursive organization of the texts, Jens Høyrup proposes that the traditional interpretation must be rejected. The texts turn out to speak not of pure numbers, but of the dimensions and areas of rectangles and other measurable geometrical magnitudes, often serving as representatives of other magnitudes (prices, workdays, etc...), much as pure numbers represent concrete magnitudes in modern applied algebra. Moreover, the geometrical procedures are seen to be reasoned to the same extent as the solutions of modern equation algebra, though not built on any explicit deductive structure.

Author : Jürgen Wiesner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : 311009780X

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Aristoteles, Werk und Wirkung: Aristoteles und seine Schule by Jürgen Wiesner Pdf

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Author : Hassan Tahiri
Publisher : Springer
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783319937335

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The Philosophers and Mathematics by Hassan Tahiri Pdf

This book explores the unique relationship between two different approaches to understand the nature of knowledge, reality, and existence. It collects essays that examine the distinctive historical relationship between mathematics and philosophy. Readers learn what key philosophers throughout the ages thought about mathematics. This includes both thinkers who recognized the relevance of mathematics to their own work as well as those who chose to completely ignore its many achievements. The essays offer insight into the role that mathematics played in the formation of each included philosopher’s doctrine as well as the impact its remarkable expansion had on the philosophical systems each erected. Conversely, the authors also highlight the ways that philosophy contributed to the growth and transformation of mathematics. Throughout, significant historical examples help to illustrate these points in a vivid way. Mathematics has often been a favored interlocutor of philosophers and a major source of inspiration. This book is the outcome of an international conference held in honor of Roshdi Rashed, a renowned historian of mathematics. It provides researchers, students, and interested readers with remarkable insights into the history of an important relationship throughout the ages.

Author : Eberhard Knobloch,Hikosaburo Komatsu,Dun Liu
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-13
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9784431542735

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Seki, Founder of Modern Mathematics in Japan by Eberhard Knobloch,Hikosaburo Komatsu,Dun Liu Pdf

Seki was a Japanese mathematician in the seventeenth century known for his outstanding achievements, including the elimination theory of systems of algebraic equations, which preceded the works of Étienne Bézout and Leonhard Euler by 80 years. Seki was a contemporary of Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, although there was apparently no direct interaction between them. The Mathematical Society of Japan and the History of Mathematics Society of Japan hosted the International Conference on History of Mathematics in Commemoration of the 300th Posthumous Anniversary of Seki in 2008. This book is the official record of the conference and includes supplements of collated texts of Seki's original writings with notes in English on these texts. Hikosaburo Komatsu (Professor emeritus, The University of Tokyo), one of the editors, is known for partial differential equations and hyperfunction theory, and for his study on the history of Japanese mathematics. He served as the President of the International Congress of Mathematicians Kyoto 1990.

Author : G. E. R. Lloyd,Jingyi Jenny Zhao,Qiaosheng Dong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107086661

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Ancient Greece and China Compared by G. E. R. Lloyd,Jingyi Jenny Zhao,Qiaosheng Dong Pdf

A pioneering, methodologically sophisticated set of studies describing and analysing key features of ancient Greek and Chinese civilisations, including issues in philosophy and religion, in art and literature, in mathematics and the life sciences, in agriculture, city planning and institutions. Provides a model for collaborative, comparative work on ancient civilisations.

Author : Helge Kragh
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780191630460

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Niels Bohr and the Quantum Atom by Helge Kragh Pdf

Niels Bohr and the Quantum Atom is the first book that focuses in detail on the birth and development of Bohr's atomic theory and gives a comprehensive picture of it. At the same time it offers new insight into Bohr's peculiar way of thinking, what Einstein once called his 'unique instinct and tact'. Contrary to most other accounts of the Bohr atom, the book presents it in a broader perspective which includes the reception among other scientists and the criticism launched against it by scientists of a more conservative inclination. Moreover, it discusses the theory as Bohr originally conceived it, namely, as an ambitious theory covering the structure of atoms as well as molecules. By discussing the theory in its entirety it becomes possible to understand why it developed as it did and thereby to use it as an example of the dynamics of scientific theories.