More than three centuries after its creation, calculus remains a
dazzling intellectual achievement and the gateway to higher
mathematics. This book charts its growth and development by sampling
from the work of some of its foremost practitioners, beginning with
Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in the late seventeenth
century and continuing to Henri Lebesgue at the dawn of the twentieth.
Now with a new preface by the author, this book documents the
evolution of calculus from a powerful but logically chaotic subject
into one whose foundations are thorough, rigorous, and unflinching—a
story of genius triumphing over some of the toughest, subtlest
problems imaginable. In touring The Calculus Gallery, we can see how
it all came to be.
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Masterpieces from Newton to Lebesgue
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ISBN
9780691184548
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Princeton University Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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