This Handbook explores the history of mathematics under a series of themes which raise new questions about what mathematics has been and what it has meant to pr

This handbook explores the history of mathematics, addressing what mathematics has been and what it has meant to practise it. 36 self-contained chapters provide

Mathematics is a fundamental human activity that can be practised and understood in a multitude of ways; indeed, mathematical ideas themselves are far from bein

Crucial to most research in physics, as well as leading to the development of inventions such as the transistor and the laser, quantum mechanics approaches its

This collection of original essays aims to inquire into the diversity of Generality. Through case studies taken from the history of mathematics, physics and the