Robin Wilson

Twelve Master Science Fiction Writers Ply Their Crafts

Paragons

Gregorio Cantera

Su fantástica biografía matemática

Lewis Carroll en el país de los números

Jack Copeland

Alan Turing has long proved a subject of fascination, but following the centenary of his birth in 2012, the code-breaker, computer pioneer, mathematician (and much more) has become even more celebrated with much media coverage, and several meetings, conferences and books raising public awareness of Turing's life and work. This volume will bring together contributions from some of the leading experts on Alan Turing to create a comprehensive guide to Turing that will serve as a useful resource for researchers in the area as well as the increasingly interested general reader. The book will cover aspects of Turing's life and the wide range of his intellectual activities, including mathematics, code-breaking, computer science, logic, artificial intelligence and mathematical biology, as well as his subsequent influence.

The Turing Guide

Victor Katz

Marlow Anderson

Follows on from Sherlock Holmes in Babylon to take the history of mathematics through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

And Other Tales of Mathematical History

Who Gave You the Epsilon?

Number theory is the branch of mathematics primarily concerned with the counting numbers, especially primes. It dates back to the ancient Greeks, but today it has great practical importance in cryptography, from credit card security to national defence. This book introduces the main areas of number theory, and some of its most interesting problems.

A Very Short Introduction

Number Theory

Jeremy Gray

Approximately fifty articles that were published in The Mathematical Intelligencer during its first eighteen years. The selection demonstrates the wide variety of attractive articles that have appeared over the years, ranging from general interest articles of a historical nature to lucid expositions of important current discoveries. Each article is introduced by the editors. "...The Mathematical Intelligencer publishes stylish, well-illustrated articles, rich in ideas and usually short on proofs. ...Many, but not all articles fall within the reach of the advanced undergraduate mathematics major. ... This book makes a nice addition to any undergraduate mathematics collection that does not already sport back issues of The Mathematical Intelligencer." D.V. Feldman, University of New Hamphire, CHOICE Reviews, June 2001.

Selections from The Mathematical Intelligencer

Mathematical Conversations

Brandon LaBelle

Elena Biserna

"Room Tone" was initiated by artist Brandon LaBelle to examine the relationship between sound and architecture. LaBelle sent field recordings of his apartment to 20 architects, designers and artists, each of whom was invited to construct a physical model of the apartment based solely on these recordings. This publication includes documentation of the architectural renderings, essays, an interview with LaBelle and a CD of the recordings.

Room Tone

John Fauvel

Raymond Flood

Der Aufstieg von Mathematik und Astronomie im Deutschland des 19. Jahrhunderts

Möbius und sein Band

Designer Robin Wilson shares tips and tricks to detoxify and beautify your interior spaces and to help you create a more stylish and healthy home. Author Robin Wilson, plagued by allergies and asthma since infancy, has become an expert in Clean Design—creating allergen-reduced home environments that comfort and protect families. Using Wilson’s four principles of design—sustainable, reusable, recyclable, and nontoxic—every room in the home, from attic to basement and entryway to bedroom, can look sensational and stylish while reducing “your wheezing and sneezing.” Clean Design leads to amazing results: fewer allergy symptoms and asthma attacks, easier breathing, and better overall health. Whether building a new home, renovating, or simply updating the design of their current home, Wilson offers suggestions for the best eco-friendly, healthy, nontoxic furniture, wall and floor coverings, and window treatments to dramatically improve indoor air quality and reduce household exposure to dust, pet dander, pollen, mold, dust mites, smoke, household chemicals, airborne toxins, and other allergy and asthma triggers. By making eco-friendly design choices, you will not only protect yourself and your loved ones, but also contribute to the health and sustainability of our planet at the same time. Using traditional solutions, new methods, and some of her grandmother’s secrets, Wilson empowers you to incorporate Clean Design into your home, influencing your lifestyle, increasing your family’s wellness, and proving that “eco-friendly can be beautiful!”

Wellness for your Lifestyle

Clean Design

Image, Text, Architecture brings a radical and detailed analysis of the modern and contemporary architectural media, addressing issues of architectural criticism, architectural photography and the role of journal editors. It covers examples as diverse as an article by British artist Paul Nash in The Architectural Review, 1940, an early project by French architects Lacaton & Vassal published in the journal 2G, 2001, and recent photography by Hisao Suzuki for the Spanish journal El Croquis. At the intersection of image and text the book also reveals the role of the utopian impulse within the architectural media, drawing on theories of utopian discourse from the work of the French semiotician and art theorist Louis Marin, and the American Marxist critic Fredric Jameson. Through this it builds a fresh theoretical approach to journal studies, revealing a hitherto unexplored dimension of "latent" or "unconscious" discourse within the media portrait of architecture. The purpose of this enquiry is to highlight moments where a different type of critical voice emerges on the architectural journal page, indicating the possibility of a more progressive engagement with the media as a platform for critical and speculative thinking about architecture, and to rethink the journals’ role within architectural history.

The Utopics of the Architectural Media

Image, Text, Architecture

Charles Dodgson, noto in tutto il mondo con lo pseudonimo di Lewis Carroll, deve la fama ai suoi due romanzi Alice nel paese delle meraviglie e Attraverso lo specchio e ai suoi ritratti fotografici di ragazzine e di celebrità del bel mondo vittoriano. Ma Dodgson – ci ricorda Wilson – è stato anche un matematico di talento, docente di successo al Christ Church, uno dei più prestigiosi college di Oxford, e autore di opere fondamentali come Euclide e i suoi rivali moderni (1879) e Logica simbolica (1896). Entro la cornice di una biografia completa, punteggiata di immagini d’epoca e di aneddoti divertenti e piena di riferimenti alle peripezie logico-matematiche e letterarie di Dodgson, Lewis Carroll nel paese dei numeri descrive a beneficio di un vasto pubblico di non specialisti l’attività di questo perfetto simbolo dell’Inghilterra vittoriana nei campi della geometria, dell’algebra, della logica e della matematica dei sistemi di votazione. E inoltre, per alleggerire l’esposizione, presenta alcuni dei rompicapi e paradossi con cui il creatore di Alice amava intrattenere i suoi amici bambini e i suoi contemporanei. Sullo sfondo, due domande che aiutano a mettere a fuoco la fisionomia scientifica di Dodgson: che genere di matematica faceva? Quanto era bravo, e quanto importante è stato il suo contributo? Robin Wilson (1943) insegna matematica pura alla Open University, nonché matematica al Keble College di Oxford e geometria al Gresham College di Londra. Le sue principali aree di ricerca riguardano la storia della matematica, la teoria dei grafi e la combinatorica. Autore o curatore di una trentina di volumi, tra cui alcune opere di successo sul «teorema dei quattro colori» e sul sudoku, Wilson ha vinto molti premi prestigiosi per la sua attività di divulgatore.

Lewis Carroll nel paese dei numeri

Lewis Carroll's books have delighted children and adults for generations, but behind their exuberant fantasy and delightful nonsense was the mind of a brilliant mathematician. This title explores the curious imagination of this man who filled his writings with problems, paradoxes, puzzles and teasing games of logic.

His Fantastical Mathematical Logical Life

Lewis Carroll in Numberland

Marlene Caroselli

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The mathematical tradition at Oxford is one of the oldest in Britain, and Oxford scholars have been at the forefront of mathematical research for the past eight centuries. This is the story of the intellectual and social life of this community, and of its interactions with the wider world.

Eight Centuries of the Mathematical Sciences

Oxford Figures

Collection of essays on the history of mathematics by distinguished authorities.

Sherlock Holmes in Babylon

Lewis Carroll's books have delighted children and adults for generations, but behind their exuberant fantasy and delightful nonsense was the mind of a brilliant mathematician. Now his forgotten achievements in the world of numbers are brought to light by acclaimed author and mathematician Robin Wilson. Here he explores the curious imagination of a man whose pioneering work at Oxford University included investigations into voting patterns and tennis seeding, who dreamt up numerical conundrums in bed at night and who filled his writings with problems, paradoxes, puzzles and teasing games of logic. Taking us into a world of mock turtles and maps, gryphons and gravity, Lewis Carroll in Numberland reveals the singular mind of a genius.

June Barrow-Green

The History of Mathematics: A Source-Based Approach is a comprehensive history of the development of mathematics. This, the first volume of the two-volume set, takes readers from the beginning of counting in prehistory to 1600 and the threshold of the discovery of calculus. It is notable for the extensive engagement with original—primary and secondary—source material. The coverage is worldwide, and embraces developments, including education, in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, China, India, the Islamic world and Europe. The emphasis on astronomy and its historical relationship to mathematics is new, and the presentation of every topic is informed by the most recent scholarship in the field. The two-volume set was designed as a textbook for the authors' acclaimed year-long course at the Open University. It is, in addition to being an innovative and insightful textbook, an invaluable resource for students and scholars of the history of mathematics. The authors, each among the most distinguished mathematical historians in the world, have produced over fifty books and earned scholarly and expository prizes from the major mathematical societies of the English-speaking world.

The History of Mathematics: A Source-Based Approach: Volume 1

Get in on the next sudoku trend! Godoku--or sudoku word puzzles--are already beginning to appear in national newspapers. They offer an alphabetical variation on the conventional version, complete with a hidden word that’s revealed only when the puzzle’s complete. Anyone who knows sudoku will catch on quickly, because the game’s almost identical: the only difference is that instead of nine numbers, godoku has nine letters. And the grid still can be solved by logic alone. Some are straightforward, some are super-challenging, and all the words are arranged by category. A comprehensive introduction explains how these devilish new puzzles work.

The Last Word in Sudoku Puzzles

Hidden Word Sudoku

Godoku or Wordoku or Sudoku Word puzzles are appearing innational newspapers. These are an alphabetical variation onthe conventional sudoku puzzle. They are letter-based andcontain a hidden word that is revealed as you solve thepuzzle. Solve the puzzle the same way that you'd solve anumeric sudoku. The nine letters of the puzzle are ......

The last word in sudoku puzzles

Amirouche Moktefi

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson is best known for his 'Alice' books, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, written under his pen name of Lewis Carroll. Yet, whilst lauded for his work in children's fiction and his pioneering work in the world of Victorian photography, his everyday job was a lecturer in Mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford University. The Mathematical World of Charles L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) explores the academic background behind this complex individual, outlining his mathematical life, describing his writings in geometry, algebra, logic, the theory of voting, and recreational mathematics, before going on to discuss his mathematical legacy. This is the first academic work that collects the research on Dodgson's wide-ranging mathematical achievements into a single practical volume. Much material appears here for the first time, such as Dodgson's personal letters and drawings, as well as the results of recent investigations into the life and work of Dodgson. Complementing this are many illustrations, both historical and explanatory, as well as a full mathematical bibliography of Dodgson's mathematical publications.

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