Product Description: Mathematics is one of the most basic -- and most ancient -- types of knowledge. Yet the details of its historical development remain obscure to all but a few specialists. The two-volume Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences recovers this mathematical heritage, bringing together many of the world's leading historians of mathematics to examine the history and philosophy of the mathematical sciences in a cultural context, tracing their evolution from ancient times to the twentieth century...read more

Product Description: From the Calculus to Set Theory traces the development of the calculus from the early seventeenth century through its expansion into mathematical analysis to the developments in set theory and the foundations of mathematics in the early twentieth century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A comprehensive and intriguing account of the evolution of arithmetic and geometry, trigonometry and algebra, explores the interconnections among mathematics, physics, and mathematical astronomy and provides a history of the discipline from a new perspective. Originally published as The Norton History of the Mathematical Sciences. Reprint. (view table of contents)

A comprehensive and intriguing account of the evolution of arithmetic and geometry, trigonometry and algebra, explores the interconnections among mathematics, physics, and mathematical astronomy and provides a history of the discipline from a new perspective. (view table of contents)

Product Description: George Boole (1815-1864) is well known to mathematicians for his research and textbooks on the calculus, but his name has spread world-wide for his innovations in symbolic logic and the development and applications made since his day...read more

Product Description: Beyond being the first substantial publication on Fourier, this work contains the text of Fourier's seminal paper of 1807 on the propagation of heat, marking the first time it has ever appeared in print. This paper incorporates many of the mathematical creations on which Fourier's fame rests, including derivation of the diffusion equation, the separation of the treatment of surface phenomena from internal phenomena, the use of boundary values and initial conditions, and the development of "Fourier series" and the so-called "Bessel functions...read more