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Author Bos, H. J. M

Title Lectures in the history of mathematics / Henk J.M. Bos
Published Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society ; [London] : London Mathematical Society, ©1993

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Description 1 online resource (x, 197 pages) : illustrations
Series History of mathematics ; v. 7
History of mathematics ; v. 7.
Contents Recognition and wonder : Huygens, tractional motion, and some thoughts on the history of mathematics -- The concept of construction and the representation of curves in seventeenth-century mathematics -- The structure of Descartes's Géométrie -- Christiaan Huygens -- The fundamewntal concepts of the Leibnizian calculus -- The lemniscate of Bernoulli -- Calculus in the eighteenth century : the rôle of applications -- The closure theorem of Poncelet -- Elements of mathematics : they are no longer what they used to be -- "Queen and servant"? : the role of mathematics in the development of the sciences -- Mathematics and its social context : a dialogue in the staff room, with historical episodes
Analysis Geschichte
Mathematics History
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Mathematics -- History
Mathematics -- history
Mathematics
Wiskunde.
Matemática (história)
Mathématiques -- Histoire.
Mathematics -- History.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1470438755
9781470438753