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Author(s): Umberto Bottazzini
Title: The higher calculus: A history of real and complex analysis from Euler to Weierstrass
Additional book information: translated by Warren Van Egmond. Springer-Verlag, New York, Berlin, Heidelberg, London, Paris, Tokyo, 332 pp., $39.00. ISBN 0-387-96302-2

1.: U. Bottazzini, Il calcolo sublime: Storia dell'analisi matematica da Euler a Weierstrass, Boringhieri, Torino, 1981. MR 646263
2.: M. Kline, Mathematical thought from ancient to modern times, Oxford Univ. Press, New York, 1972. MR 472307
3.: I. Grattan-Guinness, The development of the foundations of mathematical analysis from Euler to Riemann, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1970. MR 497690
4.: J. V. Grabiner, The origins of Cauchy's rigorous calculus, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1981. MR 612973
5.: A. P. Youschkevitch, The concept of function up to the middle of the 19th century, Arch. Hist. Exact Sci. 16 (1976/7), 37-85. MR 497639

Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 186-189.
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-1987-15559-5
PII: S 0273-0979(1987)15559-5

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