Bulletin de la Société Mathematique de Belgique
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Page : 246 pages
File Size : 33,28 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Mathematics
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 33,28 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Mathematics
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Author : N.J.A. Sloane
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 36,31 MB
Release : 2014-05-10
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 148326467X
A Handbook of Integer Sequences contains a main table of 2300 sequences of integers that are collected from all branches of mathematics and science. This handbook describes how to use the main table and provides methods for analyzing and describing unknown and important sequences. This compilation also serves as an index to the literature for locating references on a particular problem and quickly finds numbers such as 712, number of partitions of 30, 18th Catalan number, or expansion of ? to 60 decimal places. Other topics include the method of differences, self-generating sequences, polyominoes, permutations, and puzzle sequences. This publication is a good source for students and researchers who are confronted with strange and important sequences.
Author : Martha A. Tucker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 39,79 MB
Release : 2004-09-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0313053375
This book is a reference for librarians, mathematicians, and statisticians involved in college and research level mathematics and statistics in the 21st century. We are in a time of transition in scholarly communications in mathematics, practices which have changed little for a hundred years are giving way to new modes of accessing information. Where journals, books, indexes and catalogs were once the physical representation of a good mathematics library, shelves have given way to computers, and users are often accessing information from remote places. Part I is a historical survey of the past 15 years tracking this huge transition in scholarly communications in mathematics. Part II of the book is the bibliography of resources recommended to support the disciplines of mathematics and statistics. These are grouped by type of material. Publication dates range from the 1800's onwards. Hundreds of electronic resources-some online, both dynamic and static, some in fixed media, are listed among the paper resources. Amazingly a majority of listed electronic resources are free.
Author : Dirk De Bock
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 29,62 MB
Release : 2023-03-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 3031111664
The international New Math developments between about 1950 through 1980, are regarded by many mathematics educators and education historians as the most historically important development in curricula of the twentieth century. It attracted the attention of local and international politicians, of teachers, and of parents, and influenced the teaching and learning of mathematics at all levels—kindergarten to college graduate—in many nations. After garnering much initial support it began to attract criticism. But, as Bill Jacob and the late Jerry Becker show in Chapter 17, some of the effects became entrenched. This volume, edited by Professor Dirk De Bock, of Belgium, provides an outstanding overview of the New Math/modern mathematics movement. Chapter authors provide exceptionally high-quality analyses of the rise of the movement, and of subsequent developments, within a range of nations. The first few chapters show how the initial leadership came from mathematicians in European nations and in the United States of America. The background leaders in Europe were Caleb Gattegno and members of a mysterious group of mainly French pure mathematicians, who since the 1930s had published under the name of (a fictitious) “Nicolas Bourbaki.” In the United States, there emerged, during the 1950s various attempts to improve U.S. mathematics curricula and teaching, especially in secondary schools and colleges. This side of the story climaxed in 1957 when the Soviet Union succeeded in launching “Sputnik,” the first satellite. Undoubtedly, this is a landmark publication in education. The foreword was written by Professor Bob Moon, one of a few other scholars to have written on the New Math from an international perspective. The final “epilogue” chapter, by Professor Geert Vanpaemel, a historian, draws together the overall thrust of the volume, and makes links with the general history of curriculum development, especially in science education, including recent globalization trends.
Author : S. Warner
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 25,73 MB
Release : 1993-07-07
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0080872891
This text brings the reader to the frontiers of current research in topological rings. The exercises illustrate many results and theorems while a comprehensive bibliography is also included.The book is aimed at those readers acquainted with some very basic point-set topology and algebra, as normally presented in semester courses at the beginning graduate level or even at the advanced undergraduate level. Familiarity with Hausdorff, metric, compact and locally compact spaces and basic properties of continuous functions, also with groups, rings, fields, vector spaces and modules, and with Zorn's Lemma, is also expected.
Author : Jean Christianidis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 29,37 MB
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1402026404
The twentieth century is the period during which the history of Greek mathematics reached its greatest acme. Indeed, it is by no means exaggerated to say that Greek mathematics represents the unique field from the wider domain of the general history of science which was included in the research agenda of so many and so distinguished scholars, from so varied scientific communities (historians of science, historians of philosophy, mathematicians, philologists, philosophers of science, archeologists etc. ), while new scholarship of the highest quality continues to be produced. This volume includes 19 classic papers on the history of Greek mathematics that were published during the entire 20th century and affected significantly the state of the art of this field. It is divided into six self-contained sections, each one with its own editor, who had the responsibility for the selection of the papers that are republished in the section, and who wrote the introduction of the section. It constitutes a kind of a Reader book which is today, one century after the first publications of Tannery, Zeuthen, Heath and the other outstanding figures of the end of the 19th and the beg- ning of 20th century, rather timely in many respects.
Author : Luca Incurvati
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 30,88 MB
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 1108758355
Sets are central to mathematics and its foundations, but what are they? In this book Luca Incurvati provides a detailed examination of all the major conceptions of set and discusses their virtues and shortcomings, as well as introducing the fundamentals of the alternative set theories with which these conceptions are associated. He shows that the conceptual landscape includes not only the naïve and iterative conceptions but also the limitation of size conception, the definite conception, the stratified conception and the graph conception. In addition, he presents a novel, minimalist account of the iterative conception which does not require the existence of a relation of metaphysical dependence between a set and its members. His book will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in logic and the philosophy of mathematics.
Author : José Ferreirós
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 32,90 MB
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 1400874009
This book presents a new approach to the epistemology of mathematics by viewing mathematics as a human activity whose knowledge is intimately linked with practice. Charting an exciting new direction in the philosophy of mathematics, José Ferreirós uses the crucial idea of a continuum to provide an account of the development of mathematical knowledge that reflects the actual experience of doing math and makes sense of the perceived objectivity of mathematical results. Describing a historically oriented, agent-based philosophy of mathematics, Ferreirós shows how the mathematical tradition evolved from Euclidean geometry to the real numbers and set-theoretic structures. He argues for the need to take into account a whole web of mathematical and other practices that are learned and linked by agents, and whose interplay acts as a constraint. Ferreirós demonstrates how advanced mathematics, far from being a priori, is based on hypotheses, in contrast to elementary math, which has strong cognitive and practical roots and therefore enjoys certainty. Offering a wealth of philosophical and historical insights, Mathematical Knowledge and the Interplay of Practices challenges us to rethink some of our most basic assumptions about mathematics, its objectivity, and its relationship to culture and science.
Author : Javier Echeverría
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,2 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783110132496
Author : Alcantara
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 27,92 MB
Release : 1985-04-25
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780824773304
This unique collection of research papers provides an important contribution to the area of Mathematical Logic and Formal Systems. Exploring interesting practical applications as well as problems for further investigation, this single-source reference discusses the interpretations of the concept of probability and their relationship to statistical methods ... illustrates the problem of set theoretical foundations and category theory ... treats the various aspects of the theory of large cardinals including combinatorial properties of some sets naturally related to them ... resolves an open problem in the theory of relations ... and characterizes interpretations of elementary theories as functors between categories whose objects are structures. Written by world-renowned authorities in their fields, Mathematical Logic and Formal Systems is important reading for logicians, pure and applied mathematicians, and graduate students in logic courses. Book jacket.