The Calculus Gallery

Masterpieces from Newton to Lebesgue

William Dunham (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2018
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18285-8 (ISBN)

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More than three centuries after its creation, calculus remains a dazzling intellectual achievement and the gateway to higher mathematics. This book charts its growth and development by sampling from the work of some of its foremost practitioners, beginning with Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in the late seventeenth century and continuing to Henri Lebesgue at the dawn of the twentieth. Now with a new preface by the author, this book documents the evolution of calculus from a powerful but logically chaotic subject into one whose foundations are thorough, rigorous, and unflinching—a story of genius triumphing over some of the toughest, subtlest problems imaginable. In touring The Calculus Gallery, we can see how it all came to be.

William Dunham is a Research Associate in Mathematics at Bryn Mawr College. He is the author of Journey Through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics, The Mathematical Universe, and Euler: The Master of Us All, and is a co-editor (along with Jerry Alexanderson and Don Albers) of The G.H. Hardy Reader. He received the Mathematical Association of America's George Polya, Trevor Evans, and Lester R. Ford awards, as well as its Beckenbach Prize for expository writing.

Erscheinungsdatum	28.10.2018
Reihe/Serie	Princeton Science Library
Vorwort	William Dunham
Zusatzinfo	63 b/w illus.
Verlagsort	New Jersey
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Analysis
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geschichte der Mathematik
ISBN-10	0-691-18285-X / 069118285X
ISBN-13	978-0-691-18285-8 / 9780691182858
Zustand	Neuware