Grabiner, Judith V.
[Washington, DC] : Mathematical Association of America, c2010.
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Part of the series Spectrum series;MAA spectrum.
Notes:
- Part I was formerly published as The calculus as algebra: J.-L. Lagrange, 1736-1813 by Garland Publishing, New York, 1990. –P. facing t.p.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- The calculus as algebra — The mathematician, the historian, and the history of mathematics — Who gave you the epsilon? Cauchy and the origins of rigorous calculus — The changing concept of change: the derivative from Fermat to Weierstrass — The centrality of mathematics in the history of western thought — Descartes and problem-solving — The calculus as algebra, the calculus as geometry: Lagrange, Maclaurin, and their legacy — Was Newton’s calculus a dead end? the continental influence of Maclaurin’s treatise of fluxions — Newton, Maclaurin, and the authority of mathematics — Why should historical truth matter to mathematicians? dispelling myths while promoting maths — Why did Lagrange prove the parallel postulate?
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