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Fibonacci’s Liber Abaci
First published in 1202, Fibonacci's "Liber abaci" was one of the most important books on mathematics in the Middle Ages, introducing Arabic numerals and methods throughout …
A Survey of the Almagest
The Almagest, by the Greek astronomer and mathematician Ptolemy, is the most important surviving treatise on early mathematical astronomy, offering historians valuable insight into …
The Arithmetic of Infinitesimals
The book is the first English translation of John Wallis's Arithmetica Infinitorum (1656), a key text on the seventeenth-century development of the calculus. Accompanied with …
Edmond Halley’s Reconstruction of the Lost Book of Apollonius’s Conics
Apollonius’s Conics was one of the greatest works of advanced mathematics in antiquity. The work comprised eight books, of which four have come down to us in their original Greek …
Exploring the Limits of Preclassical Mechanics
The question of when and how the basic concepts that characterize modern science arose in Western Europe has long been central to the history of science. This book examines the …
Cauchy’s Cours d’analyse
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 …
Conflicts Between Generalization, Rigor, and Intuition
This volume is, as may be readily apparent, the fruit of many years’ labor in archives and libraries, unearthing rare books, researching Nachlässe, and above all, systematic …
Between Theory and Observations
In the 18th century, purely scientific interests as well as the practical necessities of navigation motivated the development of new theories and techniques to accurately describe …
A History of the Central Limit Theorem
This study discusses the history of the central limit theorem and related probabilistic limit theorems from about 1810 through 1950. In this context the book also describes the …
Hidden Harmony—Geometric Fantasies
?This book is a history of complex function theory from its origins to 1914, when the essential features of the modern theory were in place. It is the first history of mathematics …