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​This book is a collection of papers presented at the “Archimedes in the 21st Century” world conference, held at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sci

In recent years geometry seems to have lost large parts of its former central position in mathematics teaching in most countries. However, new trends have begun

At a Christie's auction in October 1998, a battered medieval manuscript sold for two million dollars to an anonymous bidder, who then turned it over to the Walt

Archimedes was the greatest scientist of antiquity and one of the greatest of all time. This book is Volume I of the first authoritative translation of his work

This book introduces a 'Big History' perspective to understand the acceleration of social, technological and economic trends towards a near-term singularity, ma