Edited By
Ivor Grattan-Guinness
Description
This book contains around 80 articles on major writings in mathematics published between 1640 and 1940. All aspects of mathematics are
covered: pure and applied, probability and statistics, foundations and philosophy. Sometimes two writings from the same period and the
same subject are taken together. The biography of the author(s) is recorded, and the circumstances of the preparation of the writing
are given. When the writing is of some lengths an analytical table of its contents is supplied. The contents of the writing is reviewed,
and its impact described, at least for the immediate decades. Each article ends with a bibliography of primary and secondary items.
Audience:
Mathematicians, Statisticians, Historians of science, Logicians and Philosophers.
