Author: Anthony Lo Bello
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421410990
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The most comprehensive math root dictionary ever published. Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Do you ever wonder about the origins of mathematical terms such as ergodic, biholomorphic, and strophoid? Here Anthony Lo Bello explains the roots of these and better-known words like asymmetric, gradient, and average. He provides Greek, Latin, and Arabic text in its original form to enhance each explanation. This sophisticated, one-of-a-kind reference for mathematicians and word lovers is based on decades of the author's painstaking research and work. Origins of Mathematical Words supplies definitions for words such as conchoid (a shell-shaped curve derived from the Greek noun for "mussel") and zenith (Arabic for "way overhead"), as well as approximation (from the Latin proximus, meaning "nearest"). These and hundreds of other terms wait to be discovered within the pages of this mathematical and etymological treasure chest.
Origins of Mathematical Words
Author: Anthony Lo Bello
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421410990
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The most comprehensive math root dictionary ever published. Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Do you ever wonder about the origins of mathematical terms such as ergodic, biholomorphic, and strophoid? Here Anthony Lo Bello explains the roots of these and better-known words like asymmetric, gradient, and average. He provides Greek, Latin, and Arabic text in its original form to enhance each explanation. This sophisticated, one-of-a-kind reference for mathematicians and word lovers is based on decades of the author's painstaking research and work. Origins of Mathematical Words supplies definitions for words such as conchoid (a shell-shaped curve derived from the Greek noun for "mussel") and zenith (Arabic for "way overhead"), as well as approximation (from the Latin proximus, meaning "nearest"). These and hundreds of other terms wait to be discovered within the pages of this mathematical and etymological treasure chest.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421410990
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The most comprehensive math root dictionary ever published. Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Do you ever wonder about the origins of mathematical terms such as ergodic, biholomorphic, and strophoid? Here Anthony Lo Bello explains the roots of these and better-known words like asymmetric, gradient, and average. He provides Greek, Latin, and Arabic text in its original form to enhance each explanation. This sophisticated, one-of-a-kind reference for mathematicians and word lovers is based on decades of the author's painstaking research and work. Origins of Mathematical Words supplies definitions for words such as conchoid (a shell-shaped curve derived from the Greek noun for "mussel") and zenith (Arabic for "way overhead"), as well as approximation (from the Latin proximus, meaning "nearest"). These and hundreds of other terms wait to be discovered within the pages of this mathematical and etymological treasure chest.
Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra
Author: Jacob Klein
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486319814
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Important study focuses on the revival and assimilation of ancient Greek mathematics in the 13th-16th centuries, via Arabic science, and the 16th-century development of symbolic algebra. 1968 edition. Bibliography.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486319814
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Important study focuses on the revival and assimilation of ancient Greek mathematics in the 13th-16th centuries, via Arabic science, and the 16th-century development of symbolic algebra. 1968 edition. Bibliography.
The Words of Mathematics
Author: Steven Schwartzman
Publisher: MAA
ISBN: 9780883855119
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This book explains the origins of over 1500 mathematical terms used in English.
Publisher: MAA
ISBN: 9780883855119
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This book explains the origins of over 1500 mathematical terms used in English.
A History of Mathematical Notations
Author: Florian Cajori
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486161161
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 865
Book Description
This classic study notes the origin of a mathematical symbol, the competition it encountered, its spread among writers in different countries, its rise to popularity, and its eventual decline or ultimate survival. 1929 edition.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486161161
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 865
Book Description
This classic study notes the origin of a mathematical symbol, the competition it encountered, its spread among writers in different countries, its rise to popularity, and its eventual decline or ultimate survival. 1929 edition.
Number Words and Number Symbols
Author: Karl Menninger
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486319776
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Classic study discusses number sequence and number language, then explores written numerals and computations in a wide range of cultures. 282 illustrations. "Superior narrative ability." — Library Journal.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486319776
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Classic study discusses number sequence and number language, then explores written numerals and computations in a wide range of cultures. 282 illustrations. "Superior narrative ability." — Library Journal.
A Brief History of Mathematical Thought
Author: Luke Heaton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190621761
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A compelling and readable book that situates mathematics in human experience and history.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190621761
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A compelling and readable book that situates mathematics in human experience and history.
الكتاب المختصر فى حساب الجبر والمقابلة
Author: Muḥammad ibn Mūsá Khuwārizmī
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Algebra
Languages : ar
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Algebra
Languages : ar
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Mathematical Imagination
Author: Matthew Handelman
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823283852
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
This book offers an archeology of the undeveloped potential of mathematics for critical theory. As Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno first conceived of the critical project in the 1930s, critical theory steadfastly opposed the mathematization of thought. Mathematics flattened thought into a dangerous positivism that led reason to the barbarism of World War II. The Mathematical Imagination challenges this narrative, showing how for other German-Jewish thinkers, such as Gershom Scholem, Franz Rosenzweig, and Siegfried Kracauer, mathematics offered metaphors to negotiate the crises of modernity during the Weimar Republic. Influential theories of poetry, messianism, and cultural critique, Handelman shows, borrowed from the philosophy of mathematics, infinitesimal calculus, and geometry in order to refashion cultural and aesthetic discourse. Drawn to the austerity and muteness of mathematics, these friends and forerunners of the Frankfurt School found in mathematical approaches to negativity strategies to capture the marginalized experiences and perspectives of Jews in Germany. Their vocabulary, in which theory could be both mathematical and critical, is missing from the intellectual history of critical theory, whether in the work of second generation critical theorists such as Jürgen Habermas or in contemporary critiques of technology. The Mathematical Imagination shows how Scholem, Rosenzweig, and Kracauer’s engagement with mathematics uncovers a more capacious vision of the critical project, one with tools that can help us intervene in our digital and increasingly mathematical present. The Mathematical Imagination is available from the publisher on an open-access basis.
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823283852
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
This book offers an archeology of the undeveloped potential of mathematics for critical theory. As Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno first conceived of the critical project in the 1930s, critical theory steadfastly opposed the mathematization of thought. Mathematics flattened thought into a dangerous positivism that led reason to the barbarism of World War II. The Mathematical Imagination challenges this narrative, showing how for other German-Jewish thinkers, such as Gershom Scholem, Franz Rosenzweig, and Siegfried Kracauer, mathematics offered metaphors to negotiate the crises of modernity during the Weimar Republic. Influential theories of poetry, messianism, and cultural critique, Handelman shows, borrowed from the philosophy of mathematics, infinitesimal calculus, and geometry in order to refashion cultural and aesthetic discourse. Drawn to the austerity and muteness of mathematics, these friends and forerunners of the Frankfurt School found in mathematical approaches to negativity strategies to capture the marginalized experiences and perspectives of Jews in Germany. Their vocabulary, in which theory could be both mathematical and critical, is missing from the intellectual history of critical theory, whether in the work of second generation critical theorists such as Jürgen Habermas or in contemporary critiques of technology. The Mathematical Imagination shows how Scholem, Rosenzweig, and Kracauer’s engagement with mathematics uncovers a more capacious vision of the critical project, one with tools that can help us intervene in our digital and increasingly mathematical present. The Mathematical Imagination is available from the publisher on an open-access basis.
The Rainbow of Mathematics
Author: Ivor Grattan-Guinness
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393320305
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
"For Ivor Grattan-Guinness . . . the story of how numbers were invented and harnessed is a passionate, physical saga."--"The New Yorker." The author charts the growth of mathematics through the centuries and describes the evolution of arithmetic and geometry, trigonometry, and other disciplines.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393320305
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
"For Ivor Grattan-Guinness . . . the story of how numbers were invented and harnessed is a passionate, physical saga."--"The New Yorker." The author charts the growth of mathematics through the centuries and describes the evolution of arithmetic and geometry, trigonometry, and other disciplines.
Mathematics as Sign
Author: Brian Rotman
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804736848
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
In this book, Rotman argues that mathematics is a vast and unique man-made imagination machine controlled by writing. It addresses both aspects—mental and linguistic—of this machine. The essays in this volume offer an insight into Rotman's project, one that has been called "one of the most original and important recent contributions to the philosophy of mathematics."
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804736848
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
In this book, Rotman argues that mathematics is a vast and unique man-made imagination machine controlled by writing. It addresses both aspects—mental and linguistic—of this machine. The essays in this volume offer an insight into Rotman's project, one that has been called "one of the most original and important recent contributions to the philosophy of mathematics."