The Arithmetic of Infinitesimals

John Wallis (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2004
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-0-387-20709-4 (ISBN)

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The book is the first English translation of John Wallis's Arithmetica Infinitorum (1656), a key text on the seventeenth-century development of the calculus. Accompanied with annotations and an introductory essay, the translation makes Wallis's work fully available for the first time to modern readers. It shows how Wallis drew on some of the most important new ideas from the preceding twenty years, and took them forward to lay the foundations on which Newton was to build. Above all, the book displays the crucial mid-seventeenth-century shift from geometry to arithmetic and algebra as the primary language of mathematics.

To the most Distinguished and Worthy gentleman and most Skilled Mathematician, Dr William Oughtred, Rector of the church of Aldbury in the Country of Surrey.- To the Most Respected Gentleman Doctor William Oughtred, most widely famed amongst mathematicians, by John Wallis, Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford.- Doctor William Oughtred: A Response to the preceding letter (after the book went to press). In which he makes it known what he thought of that method.- The Arithmetic of Infinitesimals or a New Method of Inquiring into the Quadrature of Curves, and other more difficult mathematical problems.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.8.2004
Reihe/Serie	Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
Einführung	Jacqueline A. Stedall
Zusatzinfo	XXXIV, 192 p.
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Arithmetik / Zahlentheorie
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geschichte der Mathematik
ISBN-10	0-387-20709-0 / 0387207090
ISBN-13	978-0-387-20709-4 / 9780387207094
Zustand	Neuware