A historian looks back : the calculus as algebra and selected writings / / by Judith V. Grabiner.
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| Superior document: | Spectrum series |
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | MAA spectrum.
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| Physical Description: | xv, 287 p. :; ill. |
| Notes: | "Part I was formerly published as The calculus as algebra: J.-L. Lagrange, 1736-1813 by Garland Publishing, New York, 1990"--P. facing t.p. |
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Table of Contents:
- The calculus as algebra
- The mathematician, the historian, and the history of mathematics
- Who gave you the epsilon? Cauchy and the origins of rigorous calculus
- The changing concept of change: the derivative from Fermat to Weierstrass
- The centrality of mathematics in the history of western thought
- Descartes and problem-solving
- The calculus as algebra, the calculus as geometry: Lagrange, Maclaurin, and their legacy
- Was Newton's calculus a dead end? the continental influence of Maclaurin's treatise of fluxions
- Newton, Maclaurin, and the authority of mathematics
- Why should historical truth matter to mathematicians? dispelling myths while promoting maths
- Why did Lagrange "prove" the parallel postulate?.