A historian looks back: the calculus as algebra and selected writings
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1. Verfasser: Grabiner, Judith V. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: [Washington, DC] Mathematical Association of America c2010
Schriftenreihe:MAA spectrum
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Beschreibung:"Part I was formerly published as The calculus as algebra: J.-L. Lagrange, 1736-1813 by Garland Publishing, New York, 1990."--P. facing t.p
Includes bibliographical references and index
The calculus as algebra -- - The mathematician, the historian, and the history of mathematics -- - Who gave you the epsilon? Cauchy and the origins of rigorous calculus -- - The changing concept of change: the derivative from Fermat to Weierstrass -- - The centrality of mathematics in the history of western thought -- - Descartes and problem-solving -- - The calculus as algebra, the calculus as geometry: Lagrange, Maclaurin, and their legacy -- - Was Newton's calculus a dead end? the continental influence of Maclaurin's treatise of fluxions -- - Newton, Maclaurin, and the authority of mathematics -- - Why should historical truth matter to mathematicians? dispelling myths while promoting maths -- - Why did Lagrange "prove" the parallel postulate?
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 287 p.)
ISBN:0883855720
1614445060
9780883855720
9781614445067

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