Mathematical Reasoning and Visualization -- Visualization in Logic and Mathematics -- From Symmetry Perception to Basic Geometry -- Naturalism, Pictures, and Platonic Intuitions -- Mathematical Activity -- Mathematical Explanation and Proof Styles -- Tertium Non Datur: On Reasoning Styles in Early Mathematics -- The Interplay Between Proof and Algorithm in 3rd Century China: The Operation as Pr…
Introduction: The Birth and Growth of a Community -- History or Heritage? An Important Distinction in Mathematics and for Mathematics Education -- Ptolemy’s Mathematical Models and their Meaning -- Mathematics, Instruments and Navigation, 1600–1800 -- Was Newton’s Calculus a Dead End? The Continental Influence of Maclaurin’s Treatise of Fluxions -- The Mathematics and Science of Leonhar…
Mathematics, Art and Architecture -- Mathematics, Art and Architecture -- From Tiling the Plane to Paving Town Square -- Mathematics in Contemporary Arts — Finite and Infinity -- De Insana Geometria -- Ovals in Borromini’s Geometry -- Fractals: A Resonance between Art and Nature -- Mathland — From Topology to Virtual Architecture -- Visual Mathematics and Computer Graphics -- Introduction…
Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 Henricus Martellus and his Works -- 2 The Legends on the Yale Martellus Map -- 3 Toponyms in Arabia, Syria, and Mesopotamia -- 4 Toponyms on the Western and Southern Coasts of Africa -- 5 Southern Africa and the Egyptus novelo maps -- 6 The Influence of the Yale Martellus Map -- 7 Conclusions -- Appendix A: Equipment and Techniques Used in the Multispectral Imag…
Ch 1. Introduction -- Ch 2. The petroleum comes to light (1864–1941) -- Ch 3. The formation of the know-how (1938-1961) -- Ch 4. Improvement, professionalization and geosciences teaching (1952-1968) Ch 5. The National Petroleum Council and Petrobras as institutions providing improvement and professionalization courses in Brazil -- Ch 6. Conclusion.This book investigates the role of the Nation…
Introduction: floods and water-level fluctuations in medieval (Central-)Europe -- An environmental background: floods, modern hydrology and medieval environment -- Long-term hydrological changes based on sedimentary and archaeological evidence -- Documentary sources and methodology -- Catalogue of floods in medieval Hungary 1001-1500: analysis of individual flood reports -- Floods in medieval H…
Introduction; Brendan Walsh -- Chapter 1. The National System of Education 1831-2000; Tom Walsh -- Chapter 2. 'An Essential Service' The National Board and Teacher Education, 1831-70; Susan M. Parkes -- Chapter 3. Forged in the Fire of Persecution: Edmund Rice (1762-1844) and the Counter-Reformationary Character of the Irish Christian Brothers; Dáire Keogh -- Chapter 4. Girls at School in Nine…
Prologue: A journey to Rome -- The musician's son -- A gifted young Tuscan -- To Rome and the Jesuits -- A Surveyor of Inferno -- The spheres from the tower -- From Pisa to Padua -- Signs in the sky -- De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium -- Lecturer and designer -- A professor's commitments -- Modern physics is born -- A new star in an unchanging sky?- Drawing close to a court -- The balls fall…
Question and Method -- Paths Toward Algebraization — Development to the Eighteenth Century. The Number Field -- Paths toward Algebraization — The Field of Limits: The Development of Infinitely Small Quantities -- Culmination of Algebraization and Retour du Refoulé -- Le Retour du Refoulé: From the Perspective of Mathematical Concepts -- Cauchy’s Compromise Concept -- Development of Pure…
Parte 1 -- Un cifrario del XVIII secolo -- La prima macchina cifrante al mondo -- Damm, Hagelin e Gyldén -- Intercettazione di segnali radio e analisi crittografica prima del 1939 -- Guerra -- Entra in scena Arne Beurling -- La flotta russa del Baltico -- Segnali misteriosi -- Telescriventi -- L’analisi di Beurling -- La G-Schreiber e gli “app” -- Crittoanalisi sistematica -- Esce di sce…