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  • Math Makers

  • The Lives and Works of 50 Famous Mathematicians
  • Mathematics today is the fruit of centuries of brilliant insights by men and women whose personalities and life experiences were often as extraordinary as their mathematical achievements. This entertaining history of mathematics chronicles those achievements through fifty short biographies that bring these great thinkers to life while making their ......
  • ISBN-13: 9781633885202 (Hardback)
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: PROMETHEUS
  • Price:
    AUD $50.99
  • Stock: 20 in stock
  • Local release date: 14/06/2020
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Categories: History of mathematics [PBX]
  • Pi

  • A Biography of the World's Most Mysterious Number
  • We all learned that the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter is called pi and that the value of this algebraic symbol is roughly 3.14. What we weren't told, though, is that behind this seemingly mundane fact is a world of mystery, which has fascinated mathematicians from ancient times to the present. Simply put, pi is weird. ......
  • ISBN-13: 9781633889088 (Paperback)
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: PROMETHEUS
  • Price:
    AUD $39.99
  • Stock: 7 in stock
  • Local release date: 26/10/2023
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  • Categories: Number theory [PBH]History of mathematics [PBX]
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  • Lost Millennium:

  • History's Timetables under Siege 2ed
  • We measure history—its defining moments, landmark documents, and great figures—by dates. The French Revolution began in 1789, the Magna Carta was originally issued in 1215, and Julius Caesar died in the year 44 BC. What makes these dates correct, though? Is it possible that there is a massive gap in the historical record and that the calendar ......

  • ISBN-13: 9781421402888 (Paperback)
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Price:
    AUD $64.99
  • Stock: 2 in stock
  • Local release date: 13/02/2012
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  • Categories: History of mathematics [PBX]
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  • Imagined Civilizations:

  • China, the West, and Their First Encounter
  • Accounts of the seventeenth-century Jesuit Mission to China have often celebrated it as the great encounter of two civilizations. The Jesuits portrayed themselves as wise men from the West who used mathematics and science in service of their mission. Chinese literati-official Xu Guangqi (1562-1633), who collaborated with the Italian Jesuit Matteo ......
  • ISBN-13: 9781421406060 (Hardback)
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Price:
    AUD $130.00
  • Stock: 1 in stock
  • Local release date: 14/10/2013
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  • Categories: History of mathematics [PBX]
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  • Numbers

  • Their Tales, Types, and Treasures
  • Did you grow up thinking math is boring? It's time to reconsider. This book will teach you everything you ever wondered about numbers--and more. How and why did human beings first start using numbers at the dawn of history? Would numbers exist if we Homo sapiens weren't around to discover them? What's so special about weird numbers like pi and the ......
  • ISBN-13: 9781633880306 (Paperback)
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: PROMETHEUS
  • Price:
    AUD $38.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Local release date: 14/10/2015
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Categories: History of mathematics [PBX]
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