Between tradition and innovation : Gregorio a San Vicente and the Flemish Jesuit mathematics school / by Ad J. Meskens ; with contributions by Herman van Looy.
Pubblicazione:
Leiden : Brill, c2021.
Descrizione fisica:
XII, 293 p. : ill., ritr. ; 24 cm
Serie:
Jesuit studies, 2214-3289 ; 32
Contiene:
Indice: preface. Abbreviations. Introduction: The low countries, Spain and Europe. 1. The college and its school of mathematics 2. The seventeenth century: the dawn of a new era 3. Francisco de Aguilón and mathematical optics 4. Gregorio a San Vicente: an ignored genius 5. The creative antwerp-Leuven period 6. Exhaustion: the road to infinitesimals 7. Infinitesimal calculus at work 8. Rome and Prague, the final discoveries 9. The erroneous circle quadrature 10. Joannes della Faille and the beginning of projective geometry 11. The Antwerp students 12. The Leuven students 13. The later disciples 14. The Jesuit architects 15. The influence of the school of mathematics. Appendix 1: Chronology of
