Overview
- Includes papers by top-notch researchers in the area
- Spans centuries from Greek mathematics to Kant
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Trends in the History of Science (TRENDSHISTORYSCIENCE)
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This book collects the papers of the conference held in Berlin, Germany, 27-29 August 2012, on 'Space, Geometry and the Imagination from Antiquity to the Modern Age'. The conference was a joint effort by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin) and the Centro die Ricerca Matematica Ennio De Giorgi (Pisa).
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mathematizing Space
Book Subtitle: The Objects of Geometry from Antiquity to the Early Modern Age
Editors: Vincenzo Risi
Series Title: Trends in the History of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12102-4
Publisher: Birkhäuser Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-12101-7Published: 03 March 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37984-5Published: 08 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-12102-4Published: 31 January 2015
Series ISSN: 2297-2951
Series E-ISSN: 2297-296X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 318
Number of Illustrations: 33 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Mathematical Sciences, Geometry, History of Science