The higher calculus : a history of real and complex analysis from Euler to Weierstrass
U Bottazzini
ISBN:
0387963022
Jaar:
�1986
Kwaliteit:
Zeer goed
Uitgever:
New York : Springer-Verlag, �1986.
Beschrijving:
332 pages : illustrations ;Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-323) and index.; gebonden - bound - hard cover
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trefwoorden: Mathematical analysis History.., Mathematics History 19th century.., Mathematics History.., Analyse mathématique Congrès.., Mathématiques Histoire 19e siècle.., 31.01 history of mathematics.., Mathematical analysis.., Mathematics.., Analysis., Analyse (wiskunde)., History.., 1800-1899., Geschichte - "The true method of foreseeing the future of mathematics is to study its history and its actual state." With these words Henri Poincare began his presentation to the Fourth International Congress of Mathematicians at Rome in 1908. Although Poincare himself never actively pursued the history of mathematics, his remarks have given both historians of mathematics and working mathematicians a valuable methodological guideline, not so much for indulging in improbable prophecies about the future state of mathematics, as for finding in history the origins and moti va tions of contemporary theories, and for finding in the present the most fruitful statements of these theories. At th
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