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Lectures in the History of Mathematics
About this Title
H J Bos
Publication: History of Mathematics
Publication Year:
1993; Volume 7
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-0920-4 (print); 978-1-4704-3875-3 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/hmath/007
MathSciNet review: MR1251059
MSC: Primary 01-02; Secondary 01A45, 01A50
Table of Contents
Front/Back Matter
Chapters
- Chapter 1. Recognition and wonder - Huygens, tractional motion, and some thoughts on the history of mathematics
- Chapter 2. The concept of construction and the representation of curves in seventeenth-century mathematics
- Chapter 3. The structures of Descartes’ ‘geometrie’
- Chapter 4. Christiaan Huygens
- Chapter 5. The fundamental concepts of the Leibnizian calculus
- Chapter 6. The lemniscate of Bernoulli
- Chapter 7. Calculus in the eighteenth century - the role of applications
- Chapter 8. The closure theorem of Poncelet
- Chapter 9. Elements of mathematics - they are no longer what they used to be
- Chapter 10. “Queen and servant” - the role of mathematics in the development of the sciences
- Chapter 11. Mathematics and its social context: a dialogue in the staff room, with historical episodes