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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach …

An introduction to semi-Riemannian geometry as a foundation for general relativity Semi-Riemannian Geometry: The Mathematical Language of General Relativity is an accessible exposition of the mathema …

Math’s infinite mysteries unfold in this updated edition of the award-winning  The Math Book. Beginning millions of years ago with ancient “ant odometers, ” and moving through time to our modern …

Geometry is one of the most ancient branches of mathematics. In order to ‘understand geometry’, learners should be able to infer in a deductive way as well as be endowed with enhanced visual competen …

Resonance examines some building blocks of epistemology as a prelude to the careful analysis of the foundations of probability. The concept of resonance is introduced to shed light on the philosophic …

Welcome to the world of scale symmetry, the last elementary symmetry and the least explored!Find out how this long-neglected element transforms the traditional geometry of lines and planes into a ric …

This book is about new topological invariants of real- and angle-valued maps inspired by Morse-Novikov theory, a chapter of topology, which has recently raised interest outside of mathematics; for ex …

The book provides a self-contained and systematic treatment of algebraic and topological properties of convex sets in the n-dimensional Euclidean space. It benefits advanced undergraduate and graduat …

The first complete, in-depth study of the origins of division in extreme and mean ratio (DEMR)-‘the Golden Number’-this text charts every aspect of this important mathematical concept’s historic deve …

During Song (960 to 1279) and Yuan (1279 to 1368) dynasties, China experienced a peak in high-level algebraic investigation through the works of famous mathematicians such as Qin Jiushao, Zhu Shijie, …