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History Of Mathematics Books
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Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times, Volume 1 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 267 ratings — published 1972
A History of Mathematics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 1,048 ratings — published 1968
Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as history-of-mathematics)
avg rating 3.90 — 767 ratings — published 2006
The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics (Union Square & Co. Milestones)
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avg rating 4.03 — 2,192 ratings — published 2009
Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 3,756 ratings — published 2003
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 11,719 ratings — published 2000
A History of π (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 2,851 ratings — published 1970
A Concise History of Mathematics (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.50 — 199 ratings — published 1948
Elements of the History of Mathematics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 21 ratings — published 1960
The History of the Calculus and Its Conceptual Development (Dover Books on Mathematics)
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avg rating 3.93 — 136 ratings — published 1959
A History of Mathematics: An Introduction (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 57 ratings — published 1992
Mathematics and Its History (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)
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avg rating 4.34 — 215 ratings — published 1997
Euclid's Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 2,219 ratings — published 2001
The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 6,251 ratings — published 2002
e: the Story of a Number (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 2,170 ratings — published 1993
The Poincaré Conjecture: In Search of the Shape of the Universe (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 912 ratings — published 2007
An Imaginary Tale: The Story of √-1 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 1,494 ratings — published 1998
How to Read Historical Mathematics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 21 ratings — published 2010
The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 8,887 ratings — published 1991
Hilbert (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-mathematics)
avg rating 4.25 — 173 ratings — published 1970
A History of Greek Mathematics, Vol. 1: From Thales to Euclid (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as history-of-mathematics)
avg rating 4.09 — 53 ratings — published 1921
From Frege to Gödel: A Source Book in Mathematical Logic, 1879-1931 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.60 — 50 ratings — published 1931
A Treatise on Probability (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 117 ratings — published 1921
Contributions to the Founding of the Theory of Transfinite Numbers (Dover Books on Mathematics)
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avg rating 4.40 — 73 ratings — published 1915
Essays on the Theory of Numbers (Dover Books on Mathematics)
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avg rating 4.15 — 170 ratings — published 1901
The Mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, and Islam: A Sourcebook (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 18 ratings — published 2007
Elements of Mathematics: From Euclid to Gödel (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 72 ratings — published
Lecciones de historia de las matemáticas (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published
A History of Mathematical Notations (Dover Books on Mathematics)
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avg rating 4.09 — 22 ratings — published 1974
Statistics on the Table: The History of Statistical Concepts and Methods (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 53 ratings — published 1999
The History of Mathematics: An Introduction (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 92 ratings — published 1985
Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 2,958 ratings — published 1990
Euclidean & Non-Euclidean Geometries: Development and History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as history-of-mathematics)
avg rating 4.20 — 99 ratings — published 1974
Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World (Nook)
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avg rating 3.87 — 1,033 ratings — published 2014
Men of Mathematics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 2,080 ratings — published 1937
The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved: How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 1,525 ratings — published 2005
The Principles of Mathematics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 423 ratings — published 1903
The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 2,014 ratings — published 2001
The Universal History of Numbers: From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 240 ratings — published 1981
Mathematics From The Birth Of Numbers (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 592 ratings — published 1997
História da Matemática: Uma Visão Crítica, Desfazendo Mitos e Lendas (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 30 ratings — published 2012
The Man of Numbers: Fibonacci's Arithmetic Revolution (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.35 — 690 ratings — published 2011
The Infinite Book: A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as history-of-mathematics)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,054 ratings — published 2005
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 10,009 ratings — published 1998
Fermat's Enigma (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 33,274 ratings — published 1997
The Mathematical Experience: A National Book Award Winner – Exploring Mathematics: History, Philosophy, and Personalities for Lay Readers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 682 ratings — published 1980
The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.70 — 509 ratings — published 2008
The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty before 1900 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 105 ratings — published 1986
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.50 — 8 ratings — published 2008
A History of Mathematics (Paperback)
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avg rating 5.00 — 6 ratings — published
“Highly complex numbers like the Comma of Pythagoras, Pi and Phi (sometimes called the Golden Proportion), are known as irrational numbers. They lie deep in the structure of the physical universe, and were seen by the Egyptians as the principles controlling creation, the principles by which matter is precipitated from the cosmic mind.
Today scientists recognize the Comma of Pythagoras, Pi and the Golden Proportion as well as the closely related Fibonacci sequence are universal constants that describe complex patterns in astronomy, music and physics. ...
To the Egyptians these numbers were also the secret harmonies of the cosmos and they incorporated them as rhythms and proportions in the construction of their pyramids and temples.”
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Today scientists recognize the Comma of Pythagoras, Pi and the Golden Proportion as well as the closely related Fibonacci sequence are universal constants that describe complex patterns in astronomy, music and physics. ...
To the Egyptians these numbers were also the secret harmonies of the cosmos and they incorporated them as rhythms and proportions in the construction of their pyramids and temples.”
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“...men are capable of perceiving the Pyramid in an astonishing number of ways. Some have thought the Pyramid was an astronomic and astrological observatory. Some have thought it functioned as the equivalent of a theodolite for surveyors in ancient times... Some think it performed as a giant sundial... Some think it records the mathematics and science of a civilization which vanished... Some think it is a huge water pump. Others have thought it was filled with fabulous treasures... One early investigator came away convinced it was the remains of a huge volcano. Another thought the pyramids were Joseph's granaries. Some thought they were heathen idols which should be destroyed. Some believe the Pyramid captures powerful cosmic energies... Some think it is a tomb. Some think it is a Bible in stone with prophecies built into the scheme of its internal passages... Some think it was a mammoth public works project which consolidated the position of the pharaoh and the unity of the nation. Some think it was built by beings from outer space. Some say it was a temple of initiation. Some hold that it was an instrument of science. Some believe it is an altar of Guild built through direct Divine Revelation. And today, judging by the uses to which it has been put, some apparently think it is an outhouse.”
― Pyramid Odyssey
― Pyramid Odyssey
