Libros de Historia de las matemáticas, página 9 de 15

Alicia Dickenstein escribió Matemax teniendo en cuenta dos propósitos de la enseñanza de la matemática en la escolaridad básica: brindar a los alumnos un conocimiento útil y una poderosa herramienta para desarrollar la capacidad de analisis y reflexion, que puede ser trasladada a distintos ambitos. Pero tambien teniendo en cuenta un objetivo fundamental: entretener. Este libro contiene problemas matematicos de la vida cotidiana. Los problemas del libro, pensados para chicos de 6º y 7º años de la educacion basica, se presentan agrupados por el contexto y no por bloques de contenidos. El punto esencial en los problemas propuestos esta en entender el enunciado y decidir que es lo que hay que hacer para encontrar la respuesta

In 2000, the Clay Foundation announced a historic competition: whoever could solve any of seven extraordinarily difficult mathematical problems, and have the solution acknowledged as correct by the experts, would receive $1 million in prize money. There was some precedent for doing this: In 1900 the mathematician David Hilbert proposed twenty-three problems that set much of the agenda for mathematics in the twentieth century. The Millennium Problems--chosen by a committee of the leading mathematicians in the world--are likely to acquire similar stature, and their solution (or lack of it) is likely to play a strong role in determining the course of mathematics in the twenty-first century. Keith Devlin, renowned expositor of mathematics and one of the authors of the Clay Institute's official description of the problems, here provides the definitive account for the mathematically interested reader.

This book is about mathematical ideas, about what mathematics means-and why. Abstract ideas, for the most part, arise via conceptual metaphor-metaphorical ideas projecting from the way we function in the everyday physical world. Where Mathematics Comes From argues that conceptual metaphor plays a central role in mathematical ideas within the cognitive unconscious-from arithmetic and algebra to sets and logic to infinity in all of its forms.

Reality as we know it is bound by a set of constantsnumbers and values that dictate the strengths of forces like gravity, the speed of light, and the masses of elementary particles. In The Constants of Nature, Cambridge Professor and bestselling author John D.Barrow takes us on an exploration of these governing principles. Drawing on physicists such as Einstein and Planck, Barrow illustrates with stunning clarity our dependence on the steadfastness of these principles. But he also suggests that the basic forces may have been radically different during the universes infancy, and suggests that they may continue a deeply hidden evolution. Perhaps most tantalizingly, Barrow theorizes about the realities that might one day be found in a universe with different parameters than our own.

Alexandre Deulofeu i Torres (L’Armentera, 1903-Figueres, 1977) fou un home polifacètic, un savi, professor, farmacèutic, químic, polític republicà, historiador que va trobar l’origen del romànic entr

Este libro está dirigido a los jóvenes, y también a quienes no lo son pero quieren conocer el fascinante mundo de las matemáticas a través de su historia, sin duda el modo más bello de acercarse a ellas. Porque las ideas matematicas que hoy manejamos con soltura, incluso las mas simples, han tardado siglos en gestarse. Ver como han nacido y evolucionado es el camino que os invitamos a recorrer.

De todos los matemáticos árabes, es Alhacén el que con mayor virtuosismo maneja los métodos infinitesimales. Por esta razón merece ser llamado el Arquímedes árabe. Pero además, al igual que el sabio de Siracusa, toco muchos registros dentro de la matematica y se intereso por la fisica y por la parte mas aplicada de la ciencia. Alhacen nacio en Basora en 965, cuando ya declinaba el liderazgo cientifico de Bagdad, si bien alli comenzo sus estudios. Pero la mayor parte de su vida transcurrio en Egipto, donde el califa fatimi al-Hakim habia fundado una Casa del Saber, y alli hizo sus mas importantes descubrimientos. Por eso a veces es conocido como Alhacen el egipcio.

Jeremy J.Gray, reputado historiador de la matemática, nos explica el desafio de Hilbert, que propuso 23 problemas a los reputados matemáticos de la época y aún hoy algunos no se han podido resolver.

""The Mathematical Century" is both popular and scholarly. Piergiorgio Odifreddi clearly and accurately covers many important mathematical problems and the contributions that leading mathematicians have made to their solutions. Offering a personal but very balanced perspective, his book is one that amateur and professional alike can learn from."--Sir Michael Atiyah, Fields Medalist 1966, and former President of the Royal Society "Piergiorgio Odifreddi has done a superb job, telling the story of twentieth-century mathematics in one short and readable volume."--Freeman Dyson, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton "Odifreddi''s book successfully portrays the major developments in 20th century mathematics by an examination of the mathematical problems that have gained prominence during the past 100 years. . . . [It] comes very near to being that intangible entity--a history of modern mathematics. Moreover, the literary style is such that the contents are made accessible to a very wide readership, but with no hint of oversimplification."--P.N. Ruane, "MAA Online" The twentieth century was a time of unprecedented development in mathematics, as well as in all sciences: more theorems were proved and results found in a hundred years than in all of previous history. In "The Mathematical Century," Piergiorgio Odifreddi distills this unwieldy mass of knowledge into a fascinating and authoritative overview of the subject. He concentrates on thirty highlights of pure and applied mathematics. Each tells the story of an exciting problem, from its historical origins to its modern solution, in lively prose free of technical details. Odifreddi opens by discussing the four main philosophical foundations of mathematics of the nineteenth century and ends by describing the four most important open mathematical problems of the twenty-first century. In presenting the thirty problems at the heart of the book he devotes equal attention to pure and applied mathematics, with applications ranging from physics and computer science to biology and economics. Special attention is dedicated to the famous "23 problems" outlined by David Hilbert in his address to the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1900 as a research program for the new century,