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 hundr

This book contains several contributions on the most outstanding events in the development of twentieth century mathematics, representing a wide variety of spec

Galileo and Newton’s work towards the mathematisation of the physical world; Leibniz’s universal logical calculus; the Enlightenment’s mathématique socia

In 2006, an eccentric Russian mathematician named Grigori Perelman solved one of the world's greatest intellectual puzzles. The Poincare conjecture is an extrem

This book addresses the historiography of mathematics as it was practiced during the 19th and 20th centuries by paying special attention to the cultural context