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Lectures in the history of mathematics /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Providence, R.I. : [London] :
American Mathematical Society ; London Mathematical Society,
©1993.
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| Colección: | History of mathematics ;
v. 7. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Recognition and wonder : Huygens, tractional motion, and some thoughts on the history of mathematics
- The concept of construction and the representation of curves in seventeenth-century mathematics
- The structure of Descartes's Géométrie
- Christiaan Huygens
- The fundamewntal concepts of the Leibnizian calculus
- The lemniscate of Bernoulli
- Calculus in the eighteenth century : the rôle of applications
- The closure theorem of Poncelet
- Elements of mathematics : they are no longer what they used to be
- "Queen and servant"? : the role of mathematics in the development of the sciences
- Mathematics and its social context : a dialogue in the staff room, with historical episodes.