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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

The Bulletin publishes expository articles on contemporary mathematical research, written in a way that gives insight to mathematicians who may not be experts in the particular topic. The Bulletin also publishes reviews of selected books in mathematics and short articles in the Mathematical Perspectives section, both by invitation only.

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References
  • Florian Cajori, A History of Mathematics, 2nd edition, Macmillan, New York, 1919.
  • John Colson, The Method of Fluxions and Infinite Series, with its Application to the Geometry of Curve-lines. By the Inventor Sir Isaac Newton, Kt. Late President of the Royal Society. Translated from the Author’s Latin Original not yet made publick. To which is subjoin’d A Perpetual Comment upon the whole Work, Consisting of Annotations, Illustrations, and Supplements, in order to make this Treatise A compleat Institution for the use of Learners, Woodfall, London, 1736.
  • Gottfried Leibniz, Ars Combinatoria, 2nd edition, Croker, Frankfurt, 1690.
  • Carl Günther Ludovici, Ausführlicher Entwurft einer vollständigen Historie der Leibnitzischen Philosophie, Verlegts Johann Georg Löwe, Leipzig, 1737.
  • Frank E. Manuel, A Portrait of Isaac Newton, Belknap Press (of Harvard University Press), Cambridge, MA, 1968.
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: galexanderson@scu.edu
  • Leonard F. Klosinski
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara California 95053-0290
  • MR Author ID: 103025
  • Email: lklosinski@scu.edu
  • Published electronically: February 1, 2016
  • © Copyright 2016 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 53 (2016), 295-299
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/bull/1526
  • MathSciNet review: 3474309