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Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics 1640-1940

Presents articles on all aspects of mathematics, pure and applied.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Grattan-Guinness, I.
Autor Corporativo: Ebook Library
Formato: Electrónico Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: San Diego : Elsevier, 2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 0 Introduction
  • 1. Ren ̌Descartes, G⁹OM⁹TRIE, Latin edition (1649), French edition (1637)
  • 2. John Wallis, Arithmetica infinitorum (1656)
  • 3. Christiaan Huygens, book on the pendulum clock (1673)
  • 4. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, first three papers on the calculus (1684, 1686, 1693)
  • 5. Isaac Newton, philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica, first edition (1687)
  • 6. Jakob Bernoulli, Ars conjectandi (1713)
  • 7. Abraham de Moivre, The doctrine of chances (1718, 1738, 1756).
  • -- 8. George Berkeley, The analyst (1734)
  • 9. Daniel Bernoulli, Hydrodynamica (1738)
  • 10. Colin MacLaurin, A treatise of fluxionsA treatise of fluxions (1742)
  • 11 Jean Le Rond D'Alembert, Trait ̌de dynamique (1743, 1758)
  • 12. Leonhard Euler, book on the calculus of variations (1744)
  • 13. Leonhard Euler, Ìntroduction' to analysis (1748)
  • 14. Leonhard Euler, treatise on the differential calculus (1755)
  • 15. Thomas Bayes, An essay towards solving a problem in the doctrine of chances (1764).
  • -- 16. Joseph Louis Lagrange, Mčhanique analitiqueMčhanique Analitique, Lagrange's.
  • -- 22. Carl Friedrich Gauss, Disquisitiones arithmeticae (1801)
  • 23. Carl Friedrich Gauss, book on celestial mechanics (1809)
  • 24. P.S. Laplace, Thǒrie analytique des probabilitš, first edition (1812); Essai philosophique sur les probabilitš, first edition (1814)
  • 25. A.-L. Cauchy, Cours d'analyse (1821) and Ršum ̌of the calculus (1823)
  • 26. Joseph Fourier, Thǒrie analytique de la chaleur (1822)
  • 27. Jean Victor Poncelet, Trait ̌des propriťš projectives des figures, first edition (1822).
  • -- 28. A.-L. Cauchy, two memoirs on complex-variable function theory (1825, 1827)
  • 29. Niels Henrik Abel, paper on the irresolvability of the quintic equation (1826)
  • 30. George Green, An essay on the mathematical analysis of electricity and magnetism (1828)
  • 31. C.G.J. Jacobi, book on elliptic functions (1829)
  • 32. Hermann G. Grassmann, Ausdehnungslehre, first edition (1844)
  • 33. Karl Georg Christian von Staudt, book on projective geometry (1847)
  • 34. Bernhard Riemann, thesis on the theory of functionscomplex function theory.
  • -- 35. William Rowan HamiltonHamilton.
  • -- 40. William Thomson and Peter Guthrie Tait, Treatise on natural philosophy, first edition (1867)
  • 41. Stanley Jevons, The theory of political economy, first edition (1871)
  • 42. Felix Klein's Erlangen Program, C̀omparative considerations of recent geometrical researches' (1872)
  • 43. Richard Dedekind, Stetigkeit und irrationale Zahlen (1872)
  • 44. James Clerk Maxwell, A treatise on electricity and magnetism, first edition (1873)
  • 45. J.W. Strutt, Third Baron Rayleigh, The theory of sound, first edition (1877-1878).
  • -- 46. Georg Cantor, paper on the F̀oundations of a general set theory' (1883)
  • 47. Richard Dedekind (1888) and Giuseppe Peano (1889), booklets on the foundations of arithmetic
  • 48. Henri Poincar,̌ memoir on the three-body problem (1890)
  • 49. Oliver Heaviside, Electrical papers (1892)
  • 50. Walter William Rouse Ball, Mathematical recreations and problems of past and present times, first edition (1892)
  • 51. Alexandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov, thesis on the stability of motion (1892)
  • 52. Heinrich Hertz, posthumous book on mechanics (1894).
  • -- 53. Heinrich Weber, Lehrbuch der Algebra (1895-1896)
  • 54. David Hilbert, report on algebraic number fields (Z̀ahlbericht') (1897)
  • 55. David Hilbert, Grundlagen der Geometrie, first edition (1899)
  • 56. Karl Pearson, paper on the chi square goodness of fit test (1900)
  • 57. David Hilbert, paper on M̀athematical problems' (1901)
  • 58. Lord Kelvin, Baltimore lectures on mathematical physics ((1884), 1904)
  • 59. Henri Lebesgue and Ren ̌Baire, three books on mathematical analysis (1904-1906).
  • -- 60. H.A. Lorentz, Lectures on electron theory, first edition (1909)
  • 61. A.N. Whitehead and Bertrand Russell, Principia mathematica, first edition (1910-1913)
  • 62 Federigo Enriques and Oscar Chisini, Lectures on t̀he geometrical theory of equations and algebraic functions' (1915-1934)
  • 63 Albert Einstein, review paper on general relativity theory (1916)
  • 64. D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, On growth and form, first edition (1917)
  • 65. Leonard Dickson, History of the theory of numbers (1919-1923).
  • -- 66. Paul UrysohnUrysohn, Paul.
  • -- 73. Vito Volterra, book on mathematical biology (1931)
  • 74. S. Bochner, lectures on Fourier integrals (1932)
  • 75. A.N. Kolmogorov, Grundbegriffe der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung (1933)
  • 76 H. Seifert and W. Threlfall (1934) and P.S. Alexandroff and H. Hopf (1935), books on topology
  • 77 David Hilbert and Paul Bernays, Grundlagen der Mathematik, first edition (1934, 1939)
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  • Index.