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Book Information:
Author:
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.
Umberto Bottazzini, Il calcolo sublime: storia dell’analisi matematica da Euler a Weierstrass, Editore Boringhieri, Turin, 1981 (Italian). Lezioni e Seminari. [Lectures and Seminars]. MR 646263
Morris Kline, Mathematical thought from ancient to modern times, Oxford University Press, New York, 1972. MR 0472307
I. Grattan-Guinness, The development of the foundations of mathematical analysis from Euler to Riemann, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.-London, 1970. MR 0497690
Judith V. Grabiner, The origins of Cauchy’s rigorous calculus, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.-London, 1981. MR 612973
A. P. Youschkevitch, The concept of function up to the middle of the 19th century, Arch. History Exact Sci. 16 (1976/77), no. 1, 37–85. MR 0497639, DOI 10.1007/BF00348305
- 1.
- U. Bottazzini, Il calcolo sublime: Storia dell'analisi matematica da Euler a Weierstrass, Boringhieri, Torino, 1981. MR 0646263
- 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:
Reviewer:
C. Truesdell
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
17 (1987), 186-189
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1987-15559-5