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A History of the Conceptions of Limits and Fluxions in Great Britain from Newton to Woodhouse / by Florian Cajori.
Author: Cajori, Florian, 1859-1930.
Publisher: Mansfield Centre, CT : Martino Pub., 2007.
viii, 299 p. 2 port. (incl. front.) diagrs. index, Originally published: Chicago ; London : The Open Court Pub. Co., 1919. (The Open court series of classics of science and philosophy ; no. 5). Florian Cajori was one of the most celebrated historians of mathematics in his day. He emigrated to the United States at the age of sixteen. He received a Ph.D. at Tulane University, where he taught for a few years before being driven north by his health. He taught at Colorado College, where he founded the Colorado College Scientific Society. Even today his History of Mathematical Notations (1928-29) has been described as "unsurpassed." In 1918, he was appointed to a specially created chair in history of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. He remained in Berkeley, California until his death in 1930. A History of the Conception of Limites and Fluxions in Great Britain from Newton to Woodhouse is considered an important treatise, with an excellent index and thoroughly researched. Chapter?s cover Newton?s publications prior to 1734, as well as chapters on Jurin, Berkeley, Maclaurin, and dozens of other British Mathematicians of the period. (1633x). Fine, new from publisher.
Price: US$65.00. Quantity available: 3.
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