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  • A History of Physics: Phenomena, Ideas and Mechanisms

    Essays in Honor of Salvo D'Agostino

    Redigeret af Raffaele Pisano ...
    Serier serie Engineering (R0)
    The book gathers several contributions by historians of physics, philosophers of science and scientists as new essays in the history of physics ranging across the entire field, related in most instances to the works of Salvo D'Agostino (1921-2020), one of the field's most prominent scholars since the second half of the past century. A phenomenon is an observable measurable fact, including data ... Læs mere

    1.400,85 kr.

  • A Bridge between Conceptual Frameworks

    Sciences, Society and Technology Studies

    Redigeret af Raffaele Pisano ...
    Serier serie Engineering (R0)
    This book analyzes scientificproblems within the history of physics, engineering, chemistry, astronomy and medicine, correlated with technological applications in the social context. When and how is tension between disciplines explicitly practised? What is the conceptual bridge between science researches and the organization of technological researches in the development of industrial applications ... Læs mere

    1.307,45 kr.

  • Tartaglia’s Science of Weights and Mechanics in the Sixteenth Century

    Selections from Quesiti et inventioni diverse: Books VII–VIII

    Serier serie Engineering (R0)
    This book presents a historical and scientific analysis as historical epistemology of the science of weights and mechanics in the sixteenth century, particularly as developed by Tartaglia in his Quesiti et inventioni diverse, Book VII and Book VIII (1546; 1554).In the early 16th century mechanics was concerned mainly with what is now called statics and was referred to as the Scientia de ponderibus ... Læs mere

    840,47 kr.

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  • Mathematical Thought From Ancient to Modern Times, Volume 3

    af Morris Kline ...
    This comprehensive history traces the development of mathematical ideas and the careers of the men responsible for them. Volume 1 looks at the disciplines origins in Babylon and Egypt, the creation of geometry and trigonometry by the Greeks, and the role of mathematics in the medieval and early modern periods. Volume 2 focuses on calculus, the rise of analysis in the 19th century, and the number ... Læs mere

    227,87 kr.

  • Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and Method

    Serier serie Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
    An analysis of Newton's mathematical work, from early discoveries to mature reflections, and a discussion of Newton's views on the role and nature of mathematics.Historians of mathematics have devoted considerable attention to Isaac Newton's work on algebra, series, fluxions, quadratures, and geometry. In Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and Method, Niccolò Guicciardini examines a critical ... Læs mere

    146,99 kr.

  • Foundation Mathematics for the Physical Sciences

    This tutorial-style textbook develops the basic mathematical tools needed by first and second year undergraduates to solve problems in the physical sciences. Students gain hands-on experience through hundreds of worked examples, self-test questions and homework problems. Each chapter includes a summary of the main results, definitions and formulae. Over 270 worked examples show how to put the ... Læs mere

    872,50 kr.

  • Mathematics without Apologies

    Portrait of a Problematic Vocation

    An insightful reflection on the mathematical soulWhat do pure mathematicians do, and why do they do it? Looking beyond the conventional answers—for the sake of truth, beauty, and practical applications—this book offers an eclectic panorama of the lives and values and hopes and fears of mathematicians in the twenty-first century, assembling material from a startlingly diverse assortment of ... Læs mere

    186,74 kr.

  • A History of the Work Concept

    From Physics to Economics

    Serier serie Engineering (R0)
    This book traces the history of the concept of work from its earliest stages and shows that its further formalization leads to equilibrium principle and to the principle of virtual works, and so pointing the way ahead for future research and applications.The idea that something remains constant in a machine operation is very old and has been expressed by many mathematicians and philosophers such ... Læs mere

    840,47 kr.

  • The Mathematics of Various Entertaining Subjects

    Research in Recreational Math

    The history of mathematics is filled with major breakthroughs resulting from solutions to recreational problems. Problems of interest to gamblers led to the modern theory of probability, for example, and surreal numbers were inspired by the game of Go. Yet even with such groundbreaking findings and a wealth of popular-level books exploring puzzles and brainteasers, research in recreational ... Læs mere

    387,61 kr.

  • The Path to Post-Galilean Epistemology

    Reinterpreting the Birth of Modern Science

    Serier serie Engineering (R0)
    This book casts new light on the process that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries led to a profound transformation in the study of nature with the emergence of mechanistic philosophy, the new mixed mathematics, and the establishment of the experimental approach. It is argued that modern European science originated from Hellenistic mathematics not so much because of rediscovery of the latter ... Læs mere

    1.027,27 kr.

  • The Household

    Informal Order around the Hearth

    Some people dwell alone, many in family-based households, and an adventuresome few in communes. The Household is the first book to systematically lay bare the internal dynamics of these and other home arrangements. Legal underpinnings, social considerations, and economic constraints all influence how household participants select their homemates and govern their interactions around the hearth. ... Læs mere

    220,49 kr.

  • Belief Revision in Non-Classical Logics

    Serier serie Computer Science (R0)
    Since the advent of the Semantic Web, interest in the dynamics of ontologies (ontology evolution) has grown significantly. Belief revision presents a good theoretical framework for dealing with this problem; however, classical belief revision is not well suited for logics such as Description Logics.Belief Revision in Non-Classical Logics presents a framework which can be applied to a wide class of ... Læs mere

    466,89 kr.