Between tradition and innovation : Gregorio a San Vicente and the Flemish Jesuit mathematics school /

"This book shows that the Flemish Jesuit Mathematics School had profound influence on the course of mathematics in the seventeenth century. Manuscript evidence shows that its professor, Gregorio of San Vicente SJ, had developed a logically sound integration method more than a decade before Cava...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Meskens, Ad (Autor), Looy, Herman van (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
Colección:Jesuit studies : modernity through the prism of Jesuit history, volume 32
Temas:
Saint-Vincent, Grégoire de, > 1584-1667.
Saint-Vincent, Grégoire de, > 1584-1667
Jesuits > Education > Belgium > History > 17th century.
Jesuits > Belgium > Intellectual life.
Jesuits
1600-1699
Mathematics > Belgium > History > 17th century.
Mathematicians > Belgium > Biography.
Mathematics teachers > Belgium > Biography.
Mathématiques > Belgique > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Mathématiciens > Belgique > Biographies.
Professeurs de mathématiques > Belgique > Biographies.
Education
Intellectual life
Mathematicians
Mathematics
Mathematics teachers
Belgium > Intellectual life > 17th century.
Belgium
Biographies
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The Low Countries, Spain, and Europe
  • The college and its school of mathematics
  • The seventeenth century : the dawn of a new era
  • Francisco de Aguilón and mathematical optics
  • Gregorio a San Vicente : an ignored genius
  • The creative Antwerp-Leuven period
  • Exhaustion : the road to infinitesimals
  • Infinitesimal calculus at work
  • Rome and Prague, the final discoveries
  • The erroneous circle quadrature
  • Joannes della Faille and the beginning of projective geometry
  • The Antwerp students
  • The Leuven students
  • The later disciples
  • The Jesuit architects
  • The influence of the school of mathematics.

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