Lamson Library: MA 1500 Mathematics and the Humanities: Resources

Reference Books

REFERENCE BOOKS

Find reference print books on the Main Level of Lamson Library and access eBooks through the "View Online" links.

Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Publication Date: 2008
World of Mathematics
Call Number: REF QA5 .W67 2001 v.1-2
Publication Date: 2001
Biographical encyclopedia of mathematicians by Donald R. Franceschetti
Call Number: REF QA28 .B544 1999
Publication Date: 1999
A to Z of mathematicians by Tucker McElroy
Call Number: REF QA28 .M395 2005
Publication Date: 2005
Notable mathematicians: from ancient times to the present by Robyn V. Young, Zoran Minderović
Call Number: REF QA28 .N66 1998
Publication Date: 1998
History of modern science and mathematics by Brian S. Baigrie
Call Number: REF Q125 .H6298 2002
Publication Date: 2002
Princeton companion to mathematics by Timothy Gowers, June Barrow-Green, Imre Leader
Call Number: REF QA11.2 .P745 2008
Publication Date: 2008
The scientific 100: a ranking of the most influential scientists, past and present by John Simmons
Call Number: REF Q148 .S55 1996
Publication Date: 1996

eBooks

EBOOKS

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Women in Mathematics by Lynn M. Osen
Publication Date: 1974
Print book also available, call number: QA28 .O83 1974
Examines the lives and scholarly endeavors of women who have profoundly affected mathematical thought since antiquity.
Beyond Banneker: Black Mathematicians and the Paths to Excellence by Erica N. Walker
Publication Date: 2014
Erica N. Walker presents a compelling story of Black mathematical excellence in the United States. Much of the research and discussion about Blacks and mathematics focuses on underachievement.
Fascinating mathematical people: interviews and memoirs by Donald J. Albers, Gerald L. Alexanderson
Publication Date: 2011
Fascinating Mathematical People is a collection of informal interviews and memoirs of sixteen prominent members of the mathematical community of the twentieth century, many still active. Featured here--in their own words--are major research mathematicians whose cutting-edge discoveries have advanced the frontiers of the field.

Books

BOOKS

Find these print books on the Upper Level of Lamson Library.

Math through the ages: a gentle history for teachers and others by William P. Berlinghoff, Fernando Q. Gouvêa
Call Number: QA21 .B47 2004
Publication Date: 2004
The 25 independent sketches in Math through the Ages answer these questions and many others in an informal, easygoing style that's accessible to teachers, students, and anyone who is curious about the history of mathematical ideas.
God created the integers: the mathematical breakthroughs that changed history by Stephen Hawking
Call Number: QA21 .G63 2005
Publication Date: 2005
Includes works by : Euclid, Archimedes, Diophantus, Rene Descartes, Isaac Newton, Pierre Simon De LaPlace, Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Augustin-Louis Cauchy, George Boole, Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann, Karl Weierstrass, Richard Julius Wilhelm Dedekind, Georg Cantor, Henri Lebesgue, Kurt Godel, Alan Turing.
The Norton history of the mathematical sciences: the rainbow of mathematics by I. Grattan-Guinness
Call Number: QA21 .G695 1998
Publication Date: 1998
The book describes the evolution of all the major aspects of the discipline: arithmetic and geometry; trigonometry and algebra; the interplay between mathematics, physics, and mathematical astronomy; and "new" branches such as probability, statistics, and mathematical economics.
The mathematical century: the 30 greatest problems of the last 100 years by Piergiorgio Odifreddi
Call Number: QA26 .O3513 2004
Publication Date: 2004
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. Piergiorgio Odifreddi distills this unwieldy mass of knowledge into a fascinating and authoritative overview of the subject.
Remarkable mathematicians: from Euler to von Neumann by I.M. James
Call Number: QA28 .J36 2002
Publication Date: 2002
Introduces and profiles sixty mathematicians, starting with the era which saw mathematics freed from its classical origins and ending in the development of its modern form.
Notable women in mathematics: a biographical dictionary by Charlene Morrow, Teri Perl
Call Number: QA28 .N68 1998
Publication Date: 1998
Substantive biographical essays on 59 women from around the world who have made significant contributions to mathematics from antiquity to the present.
The millennium problems: the seven greatest unsolved mathematical puzzles of our time by Keith J. Devlin
Call Number: QA93 .D47 2002
Publication Date: 2002
Keith Devlin, renowned expositor of mathematics, tells here what the seven problems are, how they came about, and what they mean for math and science.
Visions of infinity: the great mathematical problems by Ian Stewart
Call Number: QA93 .S745 2013
Publication Date: 2013
In this book the author, a mathematician, provides an overview of the most formidable problems mathematicians have vanquished, and those that vex them still. He explains why these problems exist, what drives mathematicians to solve them, and why their efforts matter in the context of science as a whole.
Two millennia of mathematics: from Archimedes to Gauss by G.M. Phillips
Call Number: QA99 .P48 2000
Publication Date: 2000
This book is a collection of interconnected topics in areas of mathematics that particularly interest the author, ranging over the two millennia from the work of Archimedes, who died in the year 212 B.C., to the "Werke" of Gauss, who was born in 1777.
Significant figures: the lives and work of great mathematicians by Ian Stewart
Call Number: QA28 .S74 2017
Publication Date: 2017
In Significant Figures, acclaimed mathematician Ian Stewart introduces the visionaries of mathematics throughout history. Delving into the lives of twenty-five great mathematicians, Stewart examines the roles they played in creating, inventing, and discovering the mathematics we use today.