The mathematical career of Pierre de Fermat, 1601-1665
Mahoney, Michael S. (Michael Sean)
Prijs:
VERKOCHT
ISBN:
9780691036663
Jaar:
©1994
Kwaliteit:
Als nieuw
Uitgever:
Princeton University Press
Beschrijving:
2nd ed., Mathematics in 1620 -- Fermat's life and career in parlement -- Motivation to mathematics -- Algebra, analysis, and the analytic art -- Following the "precepts of the art" -- Fermat's style of work and his influence on his contemporaries -- Fermat's analytic geometry, the Ad locos plano et solidos isagoge -- The origins of the Isagoge: Appollonius' Plane Loci and Conics -- Extensions of the system of the Isagoge: The Isagode ad locos ad superficiem -- Use of the system of the Isagoge: graphic solution and classification of equations -- The roots of an equation and the roots of a method -- Of dubious parentage: the method of tangents -- Looking under the bed: Descartes vs. Fermat, 1637-38 -- The aftermath: proceeding by touch -- Learning new tricks: the letter to Brulart -- Fine tuning: the path toward quadrature and rectification -- From spirals to conoids -- etc.etc. 432 Pages., wwith diagrams etc.
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