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The first book on the systematic algebraic solutions of linear and quadratic equations by the Persian scholar Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī. The book is considered to be the foundation of modern algebra and Islamic mathematics. [10] The word "algebra" itself is derived from the al-Jabr in the title of the book. [11]
German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss said, "Mathematics is the queen of the sciences—and number theory is the queen of mathematics." Number theory also studies the natural, or whole, numbers. One of the central concepts in number theory is that of the prime number , and there are many questions about primes that appear simple but whose ...
Analytic Combinatorics (book) The Annotated Turing; Antifragile (book) Antiquarian science books; The Applicability of Mathematics in Science: Indispensability and Ontology; Arithmetica Logarithmica; Arithmetica Universalis; Arnold's Problems; Ars Magna (Cardano book) Art Gallery Theorems and Algorithms; ATLAS of Finite Groups; Automorphic ...
Contains books pertaining to mathematics targeted to a general audience. Pages in category "Popular mathematics books" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total.
The books in this series, like the other Springer-Verlag mathematics series, are small yellow books of a standard size. The books in this series tend to be written at a more elementary level than the similar Graduate Texts in Mathematics series, although there is a fair amount of overlap between the two series in terms of material covered and ...
In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World is a 2012 nonfiction book by British mathematician Ian Stewart FRS CMath FIMA, published by Basic Books. [3] In the book, Stewart traces the history of the role of mathematics in human history, beginning with the Pythagorean theorem (Pythagorean equation) [4] to the equation that transformed twenty-first century financial markets ...
More generally, the monographs are intended for the wide circle of thoughtful people familiar with basic graduate or advanced undergraduate mathematics encountered in the study of mathematics itself or in the context of related disciplines who wish to extend their knowledge without prolonged and critical study of the mathematical journals and ...
The Basic Library List Committee of the Mathematical Association of America has listed The History of Mathematics as an essential book for all undergraduate mathematics libraries, [5] and it won the 2013 Neumann Prize of the British Society for the History of Mathematics (named for Peter M. Neumann) for the best general-audience English ...