Lectures in the history of mathematics/
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Providence, R.I.: [London]:
American Mathematical Society London Mathematical Society,
c1997
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| Edition: | Rep. with corrections 1997 |
| Series: | History of mathematics
7 |
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Table of Contents:
- Recognition and wonder : Huygens, tractional motion, and some thoughts on the history of mathematics
- The concept of construction and the representation of curves in seventeenth-century mathematics
- The structure of Descartes's Geometrie
- Christiaan Huygens
- The fundamental concepts of the Leibnizian calculus
- The lemniscate of Bernoulli
- Calculus in the eighteenth century : the role of applications
- The closure theorem of Poncelet
- Elements of mathematics : they are no longer what they used to be
- "Queen and servant"? : the role of mathematics in the development of the sciences
- Mathematics and its social context : a dialogue in the staff room, with historical episodes