A historian looks back : the calculus as algebra and selected writings [E-Book] / by Judith V. Grabiner.
A historian looks back : the calculus as algebra and selected writings [E-Book] / by Judith V. Grabiner.
| Personal Name(s): | Grabiner, Judith V. |
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| Grabiner, Judith V. | |
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[Washington, D.C.] :
Mathematical Association of America,
c2010
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| Physical Description: |
xv, 287 pages : illustrations |
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englisch |
| Series Title: |
Spectrum series
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Table of Contents:
- 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?.