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A History of Mathematics: An Introduction

Jim Tattersall, Victor Katz • College Mathematics Journal (1994)

Part I. Ancient Mathematics 1. Egypt and Mesopotamia 1.1 Egypt 1.2 Mesopotamia 2. The Beginnings of Mathematics in Greece 2.1 The Earliest Greek Mathematics 2.2 The Time of Plato 2.3 Aristotle 3. Euclid 3.1 Introduction to the Elements 3.2 ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2687626

Methods of Mathematical Physics

Harold Jeffreys, Bertha Jeffreys • Cambridge University Press eBooks (1999)

This well-known text and reference contains an account of those parts of mathematics that are most frequently needed in physics. As a working rule, it includes methods which have applications in at least two branches of physics. The authors...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139168489

Mathematics as a science of patterns

Michael D. Resnik • Choice Reviews Online (1998)

Mathematics as a Science of Patterns is the definitive exposition of a system of ideas about the nature of mathematics which Michael Resnik has been elaborating for a number of years. In calling mathematics a science he implies that it has ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.35-4549

New Insights into Cd<sup>2+</sup>/Fe<sup>3+</sup> Co-Doped BiOBr for Enhancing the Photocatalysis Efficiency of Dye Decomposition under Visible-Light

Hong Sheng, Wei Wang, Rong Dai, Jing Ning et al. • Nanomaterials (2021)

Uniform flowerlike microspheres Cd2+/Fe3+ co-doped BiOBr were prepared with the aid of the microwave hydrothermal process. The results indicate that the degradation performance of Bi1−xCdxOBr and Bi1−xFexOBr are 1.31 and 2.05 times that of ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/nano11020423

On proof and progress in mathematics

William P.HG Thurston • Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (1994)

This essay on the nature of proof and progress in mathematics was stimulated by the article of Jaffe and Quinn, "Theoretical Mathematics: Toward a cultural synthesis of mathematics and theoretical physics".Their article raises interesting i...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/s0273-0979-1994-00502-6

Mathematics, Matter and Method

Hilary Putnam • Cambridge University Press eBooks (1979)

Introduction 1. Truth and necessity in mathematics 2. The thesis that mathematics is logic 3. Mathematics without foundations 4. What is mathematical truth? 5. Philosophy of physics 6. An examination of Grunbaum's philosophy of geometry 7. ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511625268

Global quantum correlations in finite-size spin chains

S Campbell, L Mazzola, G De Chiara, T J G Apollaro et al. • New Journal of Physics (2013)

We perform an extensive study of the properties of global quantum correlations in finite-size one-dimensional quantum spin models at finite temperature. By adopting a recently proposed measure for global quantum correlations (Rulli and Sara...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/15/4/043033

The Philosophy of Mathematics

Jager, Ronald • Routledge eBooks (2014)

Russell's logical investigations in the foundations of mathematics produced a fund of novel ideas, techniques, and possibilities. His powers of conception and exposition have made the subject an engaging area of study for generations of stu...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315830582-12

Solitons in Mathematics and Physics

Alan C. Newell • Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics eBooks (1985)

The History of the Soliton Derivation of the Korteweg-de Vries, Nonlinear Schrodinger and Other Important and Canonical Equations of Mathematical Physics Soliton Equation Families and Solution Methods The -Function, the Hirota Method, the P...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1137/1.9781611970227

Equations of Mathematical Physics

Alexander N. Tikhonov, A. A. Samarskiĭ, Peter B. Kahn • American Journal of Physics (1965)

Mathematical physics plays an important role in the study of many physical processes - hydrodynamics, elasticity, and electrodynamics, to name just a few. Because of the enormous range and variety of problems dealt with by mathematical phys...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1971985

Mathematical Methods for Physicists

Tai L. Chow • Cambridge University Press eBooks (2000)

This text is designed for an intermediate-level, two-semester undergraduate course in mathematical physics. It provides an accessible account of most of the current, important mathematical tools required in physics these days. It is assumed...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511755781

Mathematical Methods for Physicists

George B. Arfken, Albert A. Mullin • American Journal of Physics (1967)

Mathematical Methods for Physicists, Third Edition provides an advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate study in physical science, focusing on the mathematics of theoretical physics. This edition includes sections on the non-Cartesian ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1973757

Methods of Mathematical Physics

Richard Courant, David Hilbert, Frank C. Hoyt • Wiley eBooks (1954)

Since the first volume of this work came out in Germany in 1937, this book, together with its first volume, has remained standard in the field. Courant and Hilbert's treatment restores the historically deep connections between physical intu...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9783527617234

Methods of Mathematical Physics

Richard Courant, David Hilbert • Wiley eBooks (1989)

Since the first volume of this work came out in Germany in 1924, this book, together with its second volume, has remained standard in the field. Courant and Hilbert's treatment restores the historically deep connections between physical int...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9783527617210