A historian looks back the calculus as algebra and selected writings /

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Váldodahkki: Grabiner, Judith V.
Searvvušdahkki: ebrary, Inc
Materiálatiipa: Elektrovnnalaš E-girji
Giella:eaŋgalasgiella
Almmustuhtton: [Washington, D.C.] : Mathematical Association of America, c2010.
Ráidu:MAA spectrum.
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Sisdoallologahallan:
  • 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?.