Mathematics emerging : a sourcebook 1540-1900 / Jacqueline Stedall.
Pubblicazione:
Oxford : Oxford university press, 2008.
Descrizione fisica:
xxi, 653 p. ; 25 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Beginnings 2. Fresh ideas 3. Foreshadowings of calculus 4. The calculus of Newton and of Leibniz 5. The mathematics of nature: Newton's Principia 6. Early number theory 7. Early probability 8. Power series 9. Functions 10. Making calculus work 11. Limits and continuity 12. Solving equations 13. Groups, fields, ideals and rings 14. Derivatives and integrals 15. Complex analysis 16. Convergence and completeness 17. Linear algebra 18. Foundations. People, institutions and journals. Bibliography. Index
