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Although hints of a crisis appeared as early as the 1570s, the temperature by the end of the sixteenth century plummeted so drastically that Mediterranean harbors were covered with ice, birds literally dropped out of the sky, and "frost fairs" were erected on a frozen Thames-with kiosks, taverns, and even brothels that become a semi-permanent part of the city. Recounting the deep legacy and far-ranging consequences of this "Little Ice Age, " acclaimed historian Philipp Blom reveals how the European landscape had suddenly, but ineradicably, changed by the mid-seventeenth century. While apocalyptic weather patterns destroyed entire harvests and incited mass migrations, they gave rise to the growth of European cities, the emergence of early capitalism, and the vigorous stirrings of the Enlightenment. A timely examination of how a society responds to profound and unexpected change, Nature's Mutiny will transform the way we think about climate change in the twenty-first century and beyond.
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• Takebe Katahiro and his times
• Takebe Katahiro — A man of his times: a survey of his life and mathematical thought / Tsukane Ogawa
• Seki Takakazu and Takebe Katahiro — Two different types of mathematicians / Kenji Ueno
• On the relation between point, indivisible and infinitely small in western mathematics/ Eberhard Heinrich Knobloch
• Takebe Katahiro’s inductive methods of numerical calculation in comparison with Jacobi Bernouilli’s Ars Conjectandi of 1713/ Chikara Sasaki
• Determinants by Seki Takakazu from the group-theoretic viewpoint / Naoki Osada
• Takebe Katahiro and the Shoushili Calendar / Zelin Xu
• Takebe Katahiro and Nakane Genkei / Tatsuhiko Kobayashi
• A comparative study of the Huangyu Quanlantu and Takebe Katahiro’s Kyoho Map of Japan / Sarina
• Joseon
• The Mathematics of the Joseon dynasty -- about the Tianyuanshu / Young Wook Kim
• Solving equations in the early 18th century East Asia / Sung Sa Hong
• Nam Byeong-gil (1820–1869): a Confucian mathematician and a “promoter” of mathematics in late Joseon period / Jia-Ming Ying
• China
• Assessing the accuracy of ancient eclipse predictions / David Mumford
• On the Litian problem of bamboo slips of the Qin Dynasty collected by Peking University / Makoto Tamura -- The Methods of constructing magic squares in the Chinese Book San-san Deng-shu Tu / Shirong Guo
• Chinese mathematics and western mathematics integrated in the Tongwen Suanzhi / Zhigang Ji
• Modern East Asia
• Some aspects of the mathematical exchanges between China and Japan in modern times / Wenlin Li
• On the table of trigonometric functions that was introduced first to Japan / Jun Ozone
• Solving Sangaku with traditional technique / Rosalie Joan Hosking
• Kyuren kan — the Arima sequence / Steffen Doll and Andreas M. Hinz
• Western mathematics on Japanese soil - A history of teaching and learning of mathematics in modern Japan / Osamu Kota
• Hayashi Tsuruichi and the success of the Tohoku Mathematical Journal as a publication / Harald Kummerle
• Appendix. Three key volumes from the Taisei Sankei
• Methods for a circle,Volume 12 of the Taisei Sankei / Tsukane Ogawa and Mitsuo Morimoto
• The theory of well-posed equations, Volume 17 of the Taisei Sankei 413 / — Mitsuo Morimoto and Yasuo Fuji
• The fifteen examples of algebraic equations, Volume 19 of the Taisei Sankei / Mitsuo Morimoto and Yasuo Fuji.

This volume is a collection of papers contributed by participants at the International Conference on Traditional Mathematics in East Asia and Related Topics, held on August 25-30, 2014, at Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan. This conference was one of the satellite conferences of the Seoul ICM 2014. The year 2014 also coincided with the 350th anniversary of the birth of Takebe Katahiro (1664-1739), one of the great mathematicians of the Edo period. In his honor, the conference was called the Takebe Conference 2014. This volume is divided into four parts and an appendix. Part I is concerned with Takebe Katahiro, his mathematics and his times. The editors believe that wasan represents one phase of the mathematics of East Asia, especially of China, Japan, and Korea, for which ancient Chinese mathematics served as a basis, and Chinese characters as a lingua franca. Part II concerns the old mathematics of Korea in the Joseon Dynasty. Part III treats the mathematics of Ancient China. Part IV follows the subsequent development of Japanese mathematics and mathematical education after the Meiji Restoration (1868). The very substantial appendix contains English translations of three volumes (12, 17 and 19) of the Taisei Sankei (twenty volumes, 1711), a monograph written by the master mathematician Seki Takakazu and the two Takebe brothers, Kata'akira and Katahiro.
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• Newton's Hooke / by David Pinner
• Calculus (Newton's whores) / by Carl Djerassi.

"What purpose is served by showing that England's greatest natural philosopher is flawed ... like other mortals?" asks one of the characters in Newton's Darkness. "We need unsullied heroes!" But what if the hero is sullied? At stake is an issue that is as germane today as it was 300 years ago: a scientist's ethics must not be divorced from scientific accomplishments. There is probably no other scientist of whom so many biographies and other historical analyses have been published than Isaac Newton - all of them in the standard format of documentary prose because of their didactic purpose to transmit historical information. Newton's Darkness, however, illuminates the darker aspects of Newton's persona through two historically grounded plays dealing with two of the bitterest struggles in the history of science.The name of Isaac Newton appears in virtually every survey of the public's choice for the most important persons of the second millennium. Yet the term "darkness" can be applied to much of Newton's personality. Adjectives that have been used to describe facets of his personality include "remote", "lonely", "secretive", "introverted", "melancholic", "humorless", "puritanical", "cruel", "vindictive" and, perhaps worst of all, "unforgiving". The trait most relevant to the present book is Newton's obsessively competitive nature, which was often out of proportion to the warranted facts, as demonstrated in three of Newton's best-known bitter conflicts: with the physicist Robert Hooke, the astronomer royal John Flamsteed, and a German contemporary of almost equal intellectual prowess, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - the last fight eventually turning into an England vs Continental Europe competition. It is two of these three relentless drawn-out battles that are illuminated in Newton's Darkness in the form of historically grounded drama.After a summary of the historical evidence, the book starts with the Newton-Hooke struggle (Chapter 2), which was conducted mano a mano, and is then followed by little-known aspects of the Newton-Leibniz confrontation (Chapter 3), which was fought largely through surrogates - notably the infamous, anonymous committee of 11 Fellows of the Royal Society.
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This book provides the first comprehensive account of the relationship between philosophy of mathematics and the mathematical practice of the seventeenth century - the most eventful period of mathematical development in history. Starting with the Renaissance debates on the certainty of mathematics, the author leads the readers through the foundational issues raised by the emergence of new mathematical techniques including the influence of the Aristotelian conception of science in Cavalieri and Guldin. In the process Mancosu draws a sophisticated picture of the subtle dependencies between technical developments and philosophical reflection in seventeenth century mathematics.
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• The book and its relation to other works-- a sketch of the background in mathematics and natural philosophy-- early concepts of probability and chance-- Cardano and "Liber de Ludo Aleae", 1657-- John Graunt and the observations made upon the Bills of Morality, 1662-- the probabilistic interpretation of Graunt's life table-- the early history of life insurance mathematics-- mathematical models and statistical methods in astronomy-- the Newtonian Revolution in mathematics and science-- miscellaneous contributions between 1657 and 1708-- the great leap forward, 1708-1718 - a survey-- new solutions of old problems, 1708-1718-- James Bernoulli and "Ars Conjectandi", 1713-- Bernoulli's theorem-- tests of significance based on sex ratio at birth and the binomial distribution, 1710-1713-- Montmort and the "Essay d`Analyse sur les Jeux de Hazard", 1708 and 1713-- the problem of coincidences and the compound probability theorem-- the problem of the duration of play, 1708-1718-- Nicholas Bernoulli-- De Moivre and the "Doctrine of Chances", 1718, 1738 and 1756.
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This book gives an account of the early development of probability theory and games of chance, statistics in astronomy and demography, and life insurance mathematics. It explores the life and achievements of those who made pre-eminent contributions to the field prior to 1750 and includes a discussion of how the manner and methods of problem-solving have evolved.
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