Sherlock Holmes in Babylon and other tales of mathematical history /
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Washington, D.C. :
Mathematical Association of America,
c2004.
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Table of Contents:
- The crooked made straight: Roberval and Newton on tangents / Paul R. Wolfson
- On the discovery of the logarithmic series and its development in England up to Cotes / Josef Ehrenfried Hofmann
- Isaac Newton: man, myth and mathematics / V. Frederick Rickey
- Reading the master: Newton and the birth of celestial mechanics / Bruce Pourciau
- Newton as an originator of polar coordinates / C.B. Boyer
- Newton's method for resolving affected equations / Chris Christensen
- A contribution of Leibniz to the history of complex numbers / R.B. McClenon
- Functions of a curve: Leibniz's original notion of functions / David Dennis and Jere Confrey
- The eighteenth century. Brook Taylor and the mathematical theory of linear perspectives / P.S. Jones
- Was Newton's calculus a dead end? The continental influence of Maclaurin's treatise of fluxions / Judith Grabiner
- Discussion of fluxions: from Berkeley to Woodhouse / Florian Cajori
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- The Bernoullis and the harmonic series / William Dunham
- Leonhard Euler 1707-1783 / J.J. Burckhardt
- The number e / J.L. Coolidge
- Euler's vision of a general partial differential calculus for a generalized kind of function / Jesper Lθutzen
- Euler and the fundamental theorem of algebra / William Dunham
- Euler and differentials / Anthony P. Ferzola
- Euler and quadratic reciprocity / Harold M. Edwards.