About the cover: Laplace and his American translator
Author:
Gerald L. Alexanderson
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 51 (2014), 131-135
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-2013-01436-8
Published electronically:
September 25, 2013
MathSciNet review:
3119824
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References | Additional Information
- Florian Cajori, A History of Mathematics, 2nd edition, Macmillan, New York, 1919.
- Roger Hahn, Pierre Simon Laplace (1749–1827): A Determined Scientist, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2005.
- Pierre Simon de Laplace, Mécanique Céleste. Translated with a commentary by Nathaniel Bowditch. Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins Publishers, Boston, 1829–39.
Additional Information
Gerald L. Alexanderson
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, California 95053-0290
MR Author ID:
24640
Email:
galexand@math.scu.edu
Published electronically:
September 25, 2013
Article copyright:
© Copyright 2013
American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication.
