Sofia Kovalevskaya was a brilliant and determined young Russian woman of the 19th century who wanted to become a mathematician and who succeeded, in often difficult circumstances, in becoming arguably
How did Pierre Fatou and Gaston Julia create what we now call Complex Dynamics, in the context of the early twentieth century and especially of the First World War? The book is based partly on new, un
Geometry, an ancient field of mathematical study, remains unfamiliar to many students. Michele Audin's book remedies this, starting from linear algebra, explores affine, Euclidean and projective geome
Debut novel by mathematician Oulipo member layers coded narratives across World Wars unlocking the entangled history of politics and science. One of Publishers Weekly's Best Summer Books 2016 "Formal
This book is devoted to pseudo-holomorphic curve methods in symplectic geometry. It contains an introduction to symplectic geometry and relevant techniques of Riemannian geometry, proofs of Gromov's c
Among all the Hamiltonian systems, the integrable ones have special geometric properties; in particular, their solutions are very regular and quasi-periodic. This book serves as an introduction to sym
