Browder F.E. (editor) Mathematics into Twenty-first Century. Volume 2

Mathematical Society, 2000. - 459 pages. This remarkable book is a celebration of the state of mathematics at the end of the millennium. Produced under the auspices of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), the volume was born as part of the activities observing the World Mathematical Year 2000. P The volume consists of 30 articles written by some of the most influential mathematicians of our time. Authors of 15 contributions were recognize...

Configurations. Volume 17, Numbers 1-2, Winter 2009. pp. 105-130. Subject Headings: Riemann, Bernhard, 1826-1866. Mathematics. Abstract: This essay explores the power and fertility of mathematical imagination, as they are manifest in the thought of a nineteenth-century German mathematician Bernhard Riemann (1826–1866), one of the greatest and most imaginative mathematicians who ever lived. Riemann introduced radically new ideas in every main...

Gail, 2002. - 800 pages. This quote helps demonstrate the content, scope, and nature of this encyclopedia. The rich content covers the gamut from Abacus to Zero. Coverage is given to figures in mathematical history and development such as Galileo, Grace Hopper, and Pythagoras. Careers that rely on mathematics, like air traffic controller, insurance agent, radio disc jockey, and stonemason, have one-half to one-page articles describing how mathem...

Springer, 1998 - 403 стор. Problem-Solving Strategies is a unique collection of competition problems from over twenty major national and international mathematical competitions for high school students. The discussion of problem solving strategies is extensive. It is written for trainers and participants of contests of all levels up to the highest level: IMO, Tournament of the Towns, and the noncalculus parts of the Putnam Competition. It will a...

World Scientific Publishing Company, 2010. - 199 pages. This volume offers a unique collection of outstanding contributions from renowned women mathematicians who met in Cambridge for a conference under the auspices of European Women in Mathematics (EWM). These contributions serve as excellent surveys of their subject areas, including symplectic topology, combinatorics and number theory. The volume moreover sheds light on prominent women mathem...

Configurations. Volume 17, Numbers 1-2, Winter 2009. pp. 19-50. Subject Headings: Mathematics, Greek - Philosophy. Imagination (Philosophy). Abstract: This essay is a study in the routine use of imagination in Greek mathematical writings. By "routine" is meant both that this use is indeed very common, and that it is ultimately mundane. No flights of fancy, no poetical-like imaginative licenses are at stake. The issue rather is the systematic u...

Configurations Volume 17, Numbers 1-2, Winter 2009 pp. 51-86 Subject Headings: Mathematics - History. Ramus, Petrus, 1515-1572. Charpentier, Jacques, 1521-1574. Pythagoras. Abstract: In 1566, Petrus Ramus and Jacques Charpentier, both professors at the University of Paris, clashed publicly over the tenure of a chair in mathematics at the Coll?ge Royale. Over the course of their contest—conducted both in the courtroom and through printed pamphl...

John Wiley & Sons, 1988. - 156 pages. Nonstandard analysis represents a fundamental change of perspective in mathematics (and sciences), comparable to the introduction of Cantor's set theory in the nineteenth century. This book is a short, readable introduction to the subject, based on the axiomatic or IST approach. The first part gives a clear, rigorous exposition of the theory; the second part consists of a number of self-contained chapter...

Springer, 2009. - 668 pages. This inaugural book in the new series Advances in Mathematics Education is the most up to date, comprehensive and avant garde treatment of Theories of Mathematics Education which use two highly acclaimed ZDM special issues on theories of mathematics education (issue 6/2005 and issue 1/2006), as a point of departure. Historically grounded in the Theories of Mathematics Education (TME group) revived by the book editors...

Configurations. Volume 17, Numbers 1-2, Winter 2009. pp. 131-160. Subject Headings: Fourth dimension. Art, Modern - 20th century. Abstract: One of the most important stimuli for the imaginations of modern artists in the twentieth century was the concept of a higher, unseen fourth dimension of space. An outgrowth of the n-dimensional geometries developed in the nineteenth century, the concept predated the definition of time as the fourth dimens...