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Creating Modern Probability: Its Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy in Historical Perspective.
x 320p large hardback, white dustjacket excellent, a fresh clean copy, name in ink, no traces of use
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Trust in Numbers. The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life.
xiv 324p hardback with purple dustjacket, name to prelims, fresh and clean copy, no traces of use
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Moderne - Sprache - Mathematik. Eine Geschichte des Streits um die Grundlagen der Disziplin und des Subjekts formaler Systeme.
640p hardback, fresh dustjacket, name to endpaper, a fresh clean copy, no traces of use
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Measurement, Objectivity. and Trust.
40p offprint, grey card cover, includes discussion by various authors and "Rejoinder" by Porter
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Making Things Quantitative.
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Convolutions in French Mathematics, 1800 - 1840. From the Calculus and Mechanics to Mathematical Analysis and Mathematical Physics. Volume 1: The Setting.
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Convolutions in French Mathematics, 1800 - 1840. From the Calculus and Mechanics to Mathematical Analysis and Mathematical Physics. Volume 3: The Data.
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Convolutions in French Mathematics, 1800 - 1840. From the Calculus and Mechanics to Mathematical Analysis and Mathematical Physics. Volume 2: The Turn.
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The Correspondence between A A Markov and A A Chuprov on the Theory of Probability and Mathematical Statistics.
xvii 181p hardback, brown boards, nice copy, name to endpaper, faint and neat pencil marks to the ...
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Measurement in Psychology: A Critical History of a Methodological Concept.
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Histoire du Calcul Économique en France.
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Joseph Fourier, 1768 - 1830: A Survey of His Life and Work.
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The Planispheric Astrolabe.
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Memoirs of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society. Third Series, Seventh Volume.
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Vital Accounts: Quantifying Health and Population in Eighteenth-Century England and France.
xvi 249p hardback, dustjacket, excellent copy
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The Measure of Reality. Quantification and Western Society, 1250 to 1600.
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Asimov's New Guide to Science.
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The Great Mathematicians.
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The Social Status of Italian Mathematicians, 1450 - 1600.
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Mathematical Theories versus Biological Facts: A Debate on Mathematical Population Dynamics in the 1930ies.
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Mathematical Physics in France, 1800 - 1840: Knowledge, Activity, and Historiography.
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Barrow's Mathematics: Between Ancients and Moderns.
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L'Essor des Mathématiques Appliquées aux États-Unis: L'Impact de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale.
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Centaurus. International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology. Volume 24, 1980. = Olof Pedersen Festschrift.
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La Politique des Grands Nombres: Histoire de la Raison Statistique.
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Descartes Dream.
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Intorno ai numeri. Oggetti, Proprietà, Finzioni Utili.
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Modern Science.
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Storia del Calendario: La Misurazione del Tempo, 1450 - 1800.
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A Station Favorable to the Pursuits of Science: Primary Materials in the History of Mathematics at the United States Military Academy.
272p green hardback in excellent condition, as new
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Art of Anticipation: Values and Methods in Forecasting.
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Mathematics and the Real World: Proceedings of an International Workshop.
136p large paperback with white/orange card cover, very good clean firm copy
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Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences. Vol. 58. No 160 - 161: Memorial Adolf Youschkevitch. (Adolf Yushkevich)
432p double issue of this journal, as new, papers in many languages on the history of mathematics
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Logic and Probability in Physics.
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Vorlesungen über Differentialgeometrie. Autorisierte Deutsche Übersetzung. Zweite, Vermehrte und Verbesserte Auflage.
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Neue Geometrie des Raumes Gegründet auf die Betrachtung der Geraden Linie als Raumelement. Mit einem Vorwort von A. Clebsch. (two parts, complete)
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Women in the History of Mathematics from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century.
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Klasikine mechanika (vadovelio fragmentai). (Classical Mechanics, for colleges and universities). Test in Russian, Lithuanian, English.
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On the Problem of Formation of Physical Quantities. Text in Russian, English, Lithuanian, German.
233p blue hardback, almost as new, chapters in Russian, English, German or French, editor's ...
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Rechnung auff der Linien unnd Federn/ Auff allerley Handtierung.
144p small cream hardback, fresh copy, hardly used, reprint of original from 1525, Frakturschrift, ...
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Wranglers and Physicists: Studies on Cambridge Mathematical Physics in the Nineteenth Century. (A poor copy with annotations)
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Generalis Synopsis Sacrorum Temporum (1624); Quaestiones Chronologicae de Annis Domini, Iulianis et Nabonassari et vera mundi iudaica (1630); Quaestiones Chronologicae et annis Nati et Passi Salvatoris (1630); Tractatus de Olympiadibus (1637); etc.
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A Primer of the History of Mathematics.
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Die Linsenoptik in der Schule. Anleitung zu den Versuchen und zur rechnenden Behandlung.
104p, many illustrations in the text, plain blue cloth, ex government library, fresh and clean
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Reply to Professor Bolzmann (=Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburg, vol 15, 1887 - 1888)
8p offprint, removed from binding, very good
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Makers of Science. Mathematics, Physics, Astonomy. With an Introduction by Dr Charles Singer. Second Impression.
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The Scientific Exploration of Outer Space since the Time of Galileo.
16p essay in The Mathematical Gazette. For sale is the complete issue of the journal, fresh and ...
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Creating Modern Probability: Its Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy in Historical Perspective.
x 320p large paperback, fresh clean copy, no names or stamps, as new
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