The Origins Of Cauchys Rigorous Calculus

Author : Judith V. Grabiner
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486143740
Total Pages : 274 pages
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Download or read book The Origins of Cauchy's Rigorous Calculus written by Judith V. Grabiner and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text examines the reinterpretation of calculus by Augustin-Louis Cauchy and his peers in the 19th century. These intellectuals created a collection of well-defined theorems about limits, continuity, series, derivatives, and integrals. 1981 edition.

Author : Robert E. Bradley
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441905499
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cauchy’s Cours d’analyse written by Robert E. Bradley and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-01-14 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1821, Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789-1857) published a textbook, the Cours d’analyse, to accompany his course in analysis at the Ecole Polytechnique. It is one of the most influential mathematics books ever written. Not only did Cauchy provide a workable definition of limits and a means to make them the basis of a rigorous theory of calculus, but he also revitalized the idea that all mathematics could be set on such rigorous foundations. Today, the quality of a work of mathematics is judged in part on the quality of its rigor, and this standard is largely due to the transformation brought about by Cauchy and the Cours d’analyse. For this translation, the authors have also added commentary, notes, references, and an index.

Author : Dennis M. Cates
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030110362
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cauchy's Calcul Infinitésimal written by Dennis M. Cates and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-03 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a complete English translation of Augustin-Louis Cauchy's historic 1823 text (his first devoted to calculus), Résumé des leçons sur le calcul infinitésimal, "Summary of Lectures on the Infinitesimal Calculus," originally written to benefit his École Polytechnique students in Paris. Within this single text, Cauchy succinctly lays out and rigorously develops all of the topics one encounters in an introductory study of the calculus, from his classic definition of the limit to his detailed analysis of the convergence properties of infinite series. In between, the reader will find a full treatment of differential and integral calculus, including the main theorems of calculus and detailed methods of differentiating and integrating a wide variety of functions. Real, single variable calculus is the main focus of the text, but Cauchy spends ample time exploring the extension of his rigorous development to include functions of multiple variables as well as complex functions. This translation maintains the same notation and terminology of Cauchy's original work in the hope of delivering as honest and true a Cauchy experience as possible so that the modern reader can experience his work as it may have been like 200 years ago. This book can be used with advantage today by anyone interested in the history of the calculus and analysis. In addition, it will serve as a particularly valuable supplement to a traditional calculus text for those readers who desire a way to create more texture in a conventional calculus class through the introduction of original historical sources.

Author : Judith V. Grabiner
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Total Pages : 272 pages
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Download or read book The Origins of Cauchy's Rigorous Calculus written by Judith V. Grabiner and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Allen W. Wood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316175650
Total Pages : 1222 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century (1790–1870) written by Allen W. Wood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 1222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest volume in the Cambridge Histories of Philosophy series, The Cambridge History of Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century (1790–1870) brings together twenty-nine leading experts in the field and covers the years 1790–1870. Their twenty-eight chapters provide a comprehensive survey of the period, organizing the material topically. After a brief editor's introduction, the book begins with three chapters surveying the background of nineteenth-century philosophy: followed by two on logic and mathematics, two on nature and natural science, five on mind and language (including psychology, the human sciences and aesthetics), four on ethics, three on religion, seven on society (including chapters on the French Revolution, the decline of natural right, political economy and social discontent), and three on history, which deal with historical method, speculative theories of history and the history of philosophy.

Author : Amir Alexander
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674061748
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Duel at Dawn written by Amir Alexander and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fog of a Paris dawn in 1832, ƒvariste Galois, the 20-year-old founder of modern algebra, was shot and killed in a duel. That gunshot, suggests Amir Alexander, marked the end of one era in mathematics and the beginning of another. Arguing that not even the purest mathematics can be separated from its cultural background, Alexander shows how popular stories about mathematicians are really morality tales about their craft as it relates to the world. In the eighteenth century, Alexander says, mathematicians were idealized as child-like, eternally curious, and uniquely suited to reveal the hidden harmonies of the world. But in the nineteenth century, brilliant mathematicians like Galois became Romantic heroes like poets, artists, and musicians. The ideal mathematician was now an alienated loner, driven to despondency by an uncomprehending world. A field that had been focused on the natural world now sought to create its own reality. Higher mathematics became a world unto itselfÑpure and governed solely by the laws of reason. In this strikingly original book that takes us from Paris to St. Petersburg, Norway to Transylvania, Alexander introduces us to national heroes and outcasts, innocents, swindlers, and martyrsÐall uncommonly gifted creators of modern mathematics.

Author : Frank Smithies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521592789
Total Pages : 242 pages
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Download or read book Cauchy and the Creation of Complex Function Theory written by Frank Smithies and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-11-20 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Smithies' analysis of the process whereby Cauchy created the basic structure of complex analysis, begins by describing the 18th century background. He then proceeds to examine the stages of Cauchy's own work, culminating in the proof of the residue theorem. Controversies associated with the the birth of the subject are also considered in detail. Throughout, new light is thrown on Cauchy's thinking during this watershed period. This authoritative book is the first to make use of the whole spectrum of available original sources.

Author : Judith V. Grabiner
Publisher : MAA
ISBN 13 : 0883855720
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Historian Looks Back written by Judith V. Grabiner and published by MAA. This book was released on 2010-10-14 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring collection of a historian's work on the history of mathematics.

Author : Carl B. Boyer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470630566
Total Pages : 695 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Mathematics written by Carl B. Boyer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 695 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The updated new edition of the classic and comprehensive guide to the history of mathematics For more than forty years, A History of Mathematics has been the reference of choice for those looking to learn about the fascinating history of humankind’s relationship with numbers, shapes, and patterns. This revised edition features up-to-date coverage of topics such as Fermat’s Last Theorem and the Poincaré Conjecture, in addition to recent advances in areas such as finite group theory and computer-aided proofs. Distills thousands of years of mathematics into a single, approachable volume Covers mathematical discoveries, concepts, and thinkers, from Ancient Egypt to the present Includes up-to-date references and an extensive chronological table of mathematical and general historical developments. Whether you're interested in the age of Plato and Aristotle or Poincaré and Hilbert, whether you want to know more about the Pythagorean theorem or the golden mean, A History of Mathematics is an essential reference that will help you explore the incredible history of mathematics and the men and women who created it.

Author : Hans-Heinrich Körle
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110359839
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Infinite Series in a History of Analysis written by Hans-Heinrich Körle and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-09-25 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Higher mathematics" once pointed towards the involvement of infinity. This we label analysis. The ancient Greeks had helped it to a first high point when they mastered the infinite. The book traces the history of analysis along the risky route of serial procedures through antiquity. It took quite long for this type of mathematics to revive in our region. When and where it did, infinite series proved the driving force. Not until a good two millennia had gone by, would analysis head towards Greek rigor again. To follow all that trial, error and final accomplishment, is more than studying history: It provides touching, worthwhile access to advanced calculus. Moreover, some steps beyond convergence show infinite series to naturally fit a wider frame.