A historian looks back the calculus as algebra and selected writings /
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| Fformat: | Electronig eLyfr |
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[Washington, D.C.] :
Mathematical Association of America,
c2010.
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| Cyfres: | MAA spectrum.
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| Mynediad Ar-lein: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Ychwanegu Tag
Dim Tagiau, Byddwch y cyntaf i dagio'r cofnod hwn!
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Tabl Cynhwysion:
- 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?.