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A historian looks back : the calculus as algebra and selected writings /
Judith Grabiner, the author of A Historian Looks Back, has long been interested in investigating what mathematicians actually do, and how mathematics actually has developed. She addresses the results of her investigations not principally to other historians, but to mathematicians and teachers of mat...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Washington, DC] :
Mathematical Association of America,
©2010.
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| Colección: | MAA spectrum.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Judith Grabiner, the author of A Historian Looks Back, has long been interested in investigating what mathematicians actually do, and how mathematics actually has developed. She addresses the results of her investigations not principally to other historians, but to mathematicians and teachers of mathematics. This book brings together much of what she has had to say to this audience. The centerpiece of the book is The Calculus as Algebra: J.-L. Lagrange, 1736-1813. The book describes the achievements, setbacks, and influence of Lagrange's pioneering attempt to reduce the calculus to algebra. Nine additional articles round out the book describing the history of the derivative; the origin of delta-epsilon proofs; Descartes and problem solving; the contrast between the calculus of Newton and Maclaurin, and that of Lagrange; Maclaurin's way of doing mathematics and science and his surprisingly important influence; some widely held 'myths' about the history of mathematics; Lagrange's attempt to prove Euclid's parallel postulate; and the central role that mathematics has played throughout the history of western civilization. |
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| Notas: | "Part I was formerly published as The calculus as algebra: J.-L. Lagrange, 1736-1813 by Garland Publishing, New York, 1990"--Preliminary page. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 287 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781614445067 1614445060 |