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Landmark writings in Western mathematics 1640-1940 /
This book contains around 80 articles on major writings in mathematics published between 1640 and 1940. All aspects of mathematics are covered: pure and applied, probability and statistics, foundations and philosophy. Sometimes two writings from the same period and the same subject are taken togethe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Boston :
Elsevier,
2005.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A selection of contents:
- 1649 Re�n Descartes, Geometria (Michel Serfati)
- 1684 G.W. Leibniz, first two calculus papers (Silvia Roero)
- 1687 Isaac Newton, Principia mathematica (Niccolo' Guicciardini)
- 1713 James Bernoulli, De arte conjectandi (Ivo Schneider)
- 1738 Daniel Bernoulli, Hydrodynamica (Gleb Mikhailov)
- 1743 Jean le Rond dAlembert, Trai�t de dynamique (Helmut Pulte)
- 1748 Leonhard Euler, Introductio ad analysin infinitorum (Karin Reich)
- 1755 Leonhard Euler, Differentialis (Sergei Demidov)
- 1763 Thomas Bayes and Richard Price, paper on probability theory (Andrew Dale)
- 1788 J.L. Lagrange, �Mchanique analitique (Helmut Pulte)
- 1799-1805 P.S. Laplace, Exposition du sys�tme du monde, second edition, and �Mcanique �cleste (I. Grattan-Guinness)
- 1801 C.F. Gauss, Disquisitiones arithmeticae (Olaf Neumann)
- 1812, 1814 P.S. Laplace, T�horie analytique des probabili�ts and Essai philosophique (Stephen M. Stigler)
- 1821, 1823 A.-L. Cauchy, Cours danalyse and �Rsu�m of the calculus (I. Grattan-Guinness)
- 1822 J.B.J. Fourier, T�horie analytique de la chaleur (I. Grattan-Guinness)
- 1822 J.V. Poncelet, Trai�t des propr�i�ts projectives des figures (Jeremy Gray)
- 1844 Hermann Grassmann, Die lineale Ausdehnungslehre (Albert Lewis)
- 1851 Bernhard Riemann, thesis on complex-variable analysis (Peter Ullrich)
- 1853 W.R. Hamilton, Lectures on quaternions (Albert Lewis)
- 1854 George Boole, Laws of thought (I. Grattan-Guinness)
- 1862 J.P.G. Lejeune-Dirichlet and Richard Dedekind, Vorlesungen �uber Zahlentheorie (Catherine Goldstein)
- 1867 W. Thomson and P.G. Tait, Treatise on natural philosophy (Norton Wise)
- 1867 Bernhard Riemann, thesis on the foundations of geometries (Jeremy Gray)
- 1872 Felix Klein, essay on the Erlangen programme (Jeremy Gray)
- 1872-1891 Oliver Heaviside, Electrical papers (Ido Yavetz)
- 1881 Henri Poinca�r, prize essay on the three-body problem (June Barrow-Green)
- 1897 David Hilbert, report on number theory (Norbert Schappacher)
- 1899 David Hilbert, Grundlagen der Geometrie (Michael Toepell)
- 1900 David Hilbert, lecture on mathematical problems (Michiel Hazewinkel)
- 1900 Karl Pearson, papers on statistics (Eileen Magnello)
- 1904-1905 Henri Lebesgue, books on In�tgration and on �Sries trigono�mtriques, and
- 1915-1916 Albert Einstein, papers on general relativity theory (Tilman Sauer)
- 1917 dArcy Wentworth Thompson, On growth and form (Tim Horder)
- 1925 R.A. Fisher, Statistical methods for research workers (Anthony Edwards)
- 1927 G.D. Birkhoff, Dynamical systems (David Aubin)
- 1930 Paul Dirac, Principles of quantum mechanics and
- 1930-1931 B.L. van der Waerden, Moderne Algebra (Karl-Heinz Schlote)
- 1933 Andrei Kolmogorov, Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung (Jan von Plato)
- 1934, 1939 David Hilbert and Paul Bernays, Grundlagen der Mathematik (Wilfried Sieg).