Reading Room

These readings address the history of mathematics or the history of science. If any member of IVI wants to enter a brief review of any of these works or to add additional titles, please send a note to Mr. Dan Schmelzer, the web master.

For more readings, please see the items on the 2000 reading room list.

Recommended Readings, 8 - 8 - 01

Applebaum, Wilbur, ed., ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION: FROM COPERNICUS TO NEWTON (New York: Garland Publishing, 2000), 758 pp.

Berggren, J. Lennart; Jones, Alexander. PTOELMY'S GEOGRAPHY: AN ANNOTATED TRANSLATION OF THE THEORETICAL CHAPTERS (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001), 192 pp.

Buchwald, Jed Z.; Cohen, I. Bernard, eds., ISAAC NEWTON'S NATURAL PHILOSOPHY (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2001), 354 pp.

Chaisson, Eric J. COSMIC EVOLUTION: THE RISE OF COMPLEXITY IN NATURE (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001), 275 pp.

Dauben, Joseph W. THE HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT: A SELECTIVE ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY. Albert C. Lewis, ed., (Providence: American Mathematical Society, 2000).

Grattan-Guinness, Ivor. THE SEARCH FOR MATHEMATICAL ROOTS, 1870 - 1940: LOGICS, SET THEORIES AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF MATHEMATICS FROM CANTOR THROUGH RUSSELL TO GOEDEL. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000), 690 pp.

Headrick, Daniel R. WHEN INFORMATION CAME OF AGE: TECHNOLOGIES OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE AGE OF REASON AND REVOLUTION, 1700 - 1850. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), 246 pp.

Kepler, Johannes. OPTICS: PARALIPOMENA TO WITELO, & OPTICAL PART OF ASTRONOMY. Willian H. Donahue, trans. (Santa Fe: Green Lion Press, 2000), 459 pp.

Keuzenkamp, Hugo A. PROBABILITY, ECONOMETRICS AND TRUTH: THE METHODOLOGY OF ECONOMETRICS (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 312 pp.

Martens, Rhonda. KEPLER'S PHILOSOPHY AND THE NEW ASTRONOMY. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000), 201 pp.

Mozzochi, C. J. THE FERMAT DIARY. (Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society, 2000), 196 pp.

Scholz, Erhard, ed., HERMANN WEYL'S RAUM-ZEIT-MATERIE AND A GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO HIS SCIENTIFIC WORK. (Basel: Birkhaeuser, 2001), 403 pp.

Selin, Helaine, ed., MATHEMATICS ACROSS CULTURES: THE HISTORY OF NON-WESTERN MATHEMATICS (Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000), 479 pp.

Wood, Paul, ed., THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT: ESSAYS IN REINTERPRETATION. (Rochester, NY: The University of rochester Press, 2000), 399 pp.

Yoke, Ho Peng. LI, QI UND SHU: AN INTRODUCTION TO SCIENCE AND CIVILIZATION IN CHINA (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2000), 262 pp.

Recommended Readings, 6 - 4 - 01

Aveni, Anthony F. BETWEEN THE LINES: THE MYSTERY OF THE GIANT GROUND DRAWINGS OF ANCIENT NASCA, PERU (Austin: University of texas Press, 2000), 257 pp.

Burrow, J. W. THE CRISIS OF REASON: EUROPEAN THOUGHT, 1848 - 1914 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2000), 271 pp.

Collier, Bruce; MacLachlan, James. CHARLES BABBAGE AND THE ENGINES OF PERFECTION (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), 123 pp.

Fauvel, John; Flood, Raymond; Wilson, Robin, eds. OXFORD FIGURES: 800 YEARS OF THE MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), 296 pp.

Grafton, Anthony. LEON BATISTA ALBERTI: MASTER BUILDER OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE (New York: Hill & Wang, 2000), 417 pp.

Herz-Fischler, Roger. THE SHAPE OF THE GREAT PYRAMID (Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2000), 293 pp.

Hodges, Andrew. ALAN TURING: THE ENIGMA (New York: Walker & Company, 2000), 587 pp.

Hudson, Pat. HISTORY BY NUMBERS: AN INTRODUCTION TO QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), 278 pp.

Hughes, Agatha C.; Hughes, Thomas P. eds., SYSTEMS, EXPERTS, AND COMPUTERS: THE SYSTEMS APPROACH IN MANAGMENT AND ENGINEERING. WORLD WAR II AND AFTER (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2000), 513 pp.

Mateer, David, ed., COURTS, PATRONS AND POETS (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2000), 383 pp.

Murray, Margaret, A. M. WOMEN BECOMING MATHEMATICIANS: CREATING A PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY IN POST-WORLD WAR II AMERICA (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2000), 277 pp.

Potter, Michael. REASON'S NEAREST KIN: PHILOSOPHIES OF ARITHMETIC FROM KANT TO CARNAP (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), 305 pp.

Rotman, Brian. MATHEMATICS AS SIGN: WRITING, IMAGINING, COUNTING (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000), 170 pp.

Schouls, Peter A. DESCARTES AND THE POSSIBILITY OF SCIENCE (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000), 171 pp.

Shea, William R. ed. SCIENCE AND THE VISUAL IMAGE IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT (Canton, Mass.: Science History Publications, 2000), 232 pp.

Shen, Kangshen; Crossley, John N.; Lun, Anthony W.-C., eds. THE NINE CHAPERS ON THE MATHEMATICAL ART: COMPANION AND COMMENTARY (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 596 pp.

Von Neumann, John. THE COMPUTER AND THE BRAIN (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1958/2000), 82 pp.

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