Screen LibraryLandmark writings in Western mathematics 1640-1940 /
This book contains around 80 articles on major writings in mathematics published between 1640 and 1940. All aspects of mathematics are covered: pure and applied, probability and statistics, foundations and philosophy. Sometimes two writings from the same period and the same subject are taken togethe...
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Elsevier,
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| Publisher Address: | Amsterdam ; Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | 2005. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780444508713 |
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This book contains around 80 articles on major writings in mathematics published between 1640 and 1940. All aspects of mathematics are covered: pure and applied, probability and statistics, foundations and philosophy. Sometimes two writings from the same period and the same subject are taken together. The biography of the author(s) is recorded, and the circumstances of the preparation of the writing are given. When the writing is of some lengths an analytical table of its contents is supplied. The contents of the writing is reviewed, and its impact described, at least for the immediate decad |
| Item Description: | Title from e-book title screen (viewed Oct. 15, 2007). |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xvii, 1022 pages : illustrations) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
0080457444 9780080457444 9780444508713 0444508716 |
| Index Number: | QA21 |
| CLC: | O11 |
| Contents: | A selection of contents: -- 1649 Ren Descartes, Geometria (Michel Serfati) -- 1684 G.W. Leibniz, first two calculus papers (Silvia Roero) -- 1687 Isaac Newton, Principia mathematica (Niccolo' Guicciardini) -- 1713 James Bernoulli, De arte conjectandi (Ivo Schneider) -- 1738 Daniel Bernoulli, Hydrodynamica (Gleb Mikhailov) -- 1743 Jean le Rond dAlembert, Trait de dynamique (Helmut Pulte) -- 1748 Leonhard Euler, Introductio ad analysin infinitorum (Karin Reich) -- 1755 Leonhard Euler, Differentialis (Sergei Demidov) -- 1763 Thomas Bayes and Richard Price, paper on probability theory (Andrew Da |