From the Calculus to Set Theory 1630-1910 : : An Introductory History /

From the Calculus to Set Theory 1630-1910 : : An Introductory History / / ed. by I. Grattan-Guinness.

From the Calculus to Set Theory traces the development of the calculus from the early seventeenth century through its expansion into mathematical analysis to the developments in set theory and the foundations of mathematics in the early twentieth century. It chronicles the work of mathematicians fro...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Bos, H. J. M.,
Bunn, R.,
Dauben, Joseph W.,
Grattan-Guinness, I.,
Hawkins, Thomas,
Møller Pedersen, Kirsti,
HerausgeberIn:
Grattan-Guinness, I.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]
©2001
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface to the Princeton Edition
  • 0. Introductions and explanations
  • 1. Techniques of the calculus, 1630-1660
  • 2. Newton, Leibniz and the Leibnizian tradition
  • 3. The emergence of mathematical analysis and its foundational progress, 1780-1880
  • 4. The origins of modern theories of integration
  • 5. The development of Cantorian set theory
  • 6. Developments in the foundations of mathematics, 1870-1910
  • Bibliography
  • Name Index
  • Subject Index

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