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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.
Contents
Introduction (I. Grattan-Guinness)
1649 Rene Descartes, Geometria (Michel Serfati)
1656 John Wallis, Arithmetica infinitorum (Jackie
Stedall)
1673 Christiaan Huygens, Horologium (Joella Yoder)
1684 G.W. Leibniz, first two calculus papers (Silvia Roero)
1687 Isaac
Newton, Principia mathematica (Niccolo' Guicciardini)
1713 James Bernoulli, De arte conjectandi (Ivo Schneider)
1718 Abraham De Moivre,
Doctrine of chances (Ivo Schneider)
1734 George Berkeley, The analyst (Douglas Jesseph)
1738 Daniel Bernoulli, Hydrodynamica (Gleb
Mikhailov)
1742 Colin MacLaurin, Treatise on fluxions (Erik Lars Sageng)
1743 Jean le Rond d?Alembert, Traite de dynamique (Helmut
Pulte)
1744 Leonhard Euler, Methodus inveniendi (Craig Fraser)
1748 Leonhard Euler, Introductio ad analysin infinitorum (Karin Reich)
1755 Leonhard Euler, Differentialis (Sergei Demidov)
1763 Thomas Bayes and Richard Price, paper on probability theory (Andrew Dale)
1788 J.L. Lagrange, Mechanique analitique (Helmut Pulte)
1795 Gaspard Monge, Geometrie descriptive (Joel Sakarovitch)
1797 J.L.
Lagrange, Fonctions analytiques (Craig Fraser)
1797-1800 S. F. Lacroix, Traite du calcul (Joao Caramalho Domingues)
1799-1802 Etienne
Montucla and J.J. Lalande, Histoire des mathematiques, second edition (Pierre Crepel and Alain Coste)
1799-1805 P.S. Laplace, Exposition
du systeme du monde, second edition, and Mecanique celeste (I. Grattan-Guinness)
1801 C.F. Gauss, Disquisitiones arithmeticae (Olaf
Neumann)
1809 C.F. Gauss, Theoria motus corporum coelestium (Curtis Wilson)
1812, 1814 P.S. Laplace, Theorie analytique des probabilites
and Essai philosophique (Stephen M. Stigler)
1821, 1823 A.-L. Cauchy, Cours d?analyse and Resume of the calculus (I. Grattan-Guinness)
1825, 1827 A.-L. Cauchy, booklet and paper on complex-variable analysis (the late Frank Smithies)
1822 J.B.J. Fourier, Theorie analytique
de la chaleur (I. Grattan-Guinness)
1822 J.V. Poncelet, Traite des proprietes projectives des figures (Jeremy Gray)
1826 N.H. Abel,
paper on resolving the quintic (Roger Cooke)
1828 George Green, An essay on – electricity and magnetism (I. Grattan-Guinness)
1829
C.G.J. Jacobi, Fundamenta – functionum ellipticarum (Roger Cooke)
1844 Hermann Grassmann, Die lineale Ausdehnungslehre (Albert Lewis)
1847 K.G.C. von Staudt, Geometrie der Lage (Karin Reich)
1851 Bernhard Riemann, thesis on complex-variable analysis (Peter Ullrich)
1853 W.R. Hamilton, Lectures on quaternions (Albert Lewis)
1854 George Boole, Laws of thought (I. Grattan-Guinness)
1862 J.P.G. Lejeune-Dirichlet
and Richard Dedekind, Vorlesungen uber Zahlentheorie (Catherine Goldstein)
1867 W. Thomson and P.G. Tait, Treatise on natural philosophy
(Norton Wise)
1867 Bernhard Riemann, thesis on trigonometric series (David Mascre)
1867 Bernhard Riemann, thesis on the foundations
of geometries (Jeremy Gray)
1871 Stanley Jevons, Theory of political economy (Jean-Pierre Potier and Jan Van Daal)
1872 Felix Klein,
essay on the Erlangen programme (Jeremy Gray)
1872 Richard Dedekind, Stetigkeit und Irrationalen Zahlen (Roger Cooke)
1872-1891 Oliver
Heaviside, Electrical papers (Ido Yavetz)
1873 J.C. Maxwell, A treatise on electricity and magnetism (Franck Achard)
1877-1878 Lord
Rayleigh, Theory of sound (Ja-Hyon Ku)
1881 Henri Poincare, prize essay on the three-body problem (June Barrow-Green)
1883 Georg
Cantor, essay on the foundations of set theory (Joseph Dauben)
1888 Richard Dedekind, Was sind ... die Zahlen? and
1889 Giuseppe Peano,
Arithmetices prinipia (Jose Ferreiros)
1888-1893 Sophus Lie, Theorie der Transformationsgruppen (Peter Ullrich)
1892 W.W. Rouse
Ball, Mathematical recreations (David Singmaster)
1893 A.M. Lyapunov, book on stability theory (Jean Mawhin)
1894 Heinrich Hertz,
Die Prinzipien der Mechanik (Jesper Lutzen)
1894 W. Thomson, Baltimore lectures on dynamics and optics (Ole Knudsen)
1896 Heinrich
Weber, Lehrbuch der Algebra (Leo Corry)
1897 David Hilbert, report on number theory (Norbert Schappacher)
1899 David Hilbert, Grundlagen
der Geometrie (Michael Toepell)
1900 David Hilbert, lecture on mathematical problems (Michiel Hazewinkel)
1900 Karl Pearson, papers
on statistics (Eileen Magnello)
1900-1908 Moritz Cantor, Geschichte der Mathematik, 1900s editions (Menso Folkerts)
1904-1905 Henri
Lebesgue, books on Integration and on Series trigonometriques, and
1905 Rene Baire, Fonctions discontinues (Roger Cooke)
1909 Heinrich
Lorentz, Theory of electrons (Anne Kox)
1910-1913 A.N. Whitehead and Bertrand Russell, Principia mathematica (I. Grattan-Guinness)
1915-1916 Albert Einstein, papers on general relativity theory (Tilman Sauer)
1915-1934 Federigo Enriques and Oscar Chisini, Teoria
geometrica ... delle funzioni algebriche (Alberto Conte)
1917 d?Arcy Wentworth Thompson, On growth and form (Tim Horder)
1919-1923
L.E. Dickson, History of the theory of numbers (Della Fenster)
1921-1924 P.S. Urysohn and K. Menger, papers on dimension theory (Tony
Crilly)
1924 David Hilbert and Richard Courant, Methoden der mathematischen Physik (Skuli Sigurdsson)
1925 R.A. Fisher, Statistical
methods for research workers (Anthony Edwards)
1927 G.D. Birkhoff, Dynamical systems (David Aubin)
1930 Paul Dirac, Principles of
quantum mechanics and
1932 Johann von Neumann, Quantenmechanik (Laurie Brown and Helmut Rechenberg)
1930-1931 B.L. van der Waerden,
Moderne Algebra (Karl-Heinz Schlote)
1931 Kurt Godel, paper on incompletability (Richard Zach)
1931 W.A. Shewhart, Economic quality
control (Denis Bayart)
1931 Vito Volterra, Lecons sur – la lutte de la vie (Giorgio Israel)
1932 Solomon Bochner, Vorlesungen uber
Fouriersche Integralen (Roger Cooke)
1933 Andrei Kolmogorov, Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung (Jan von Plato)
1934 H. Seifert and W. Threlfall,
Lehrbuch der Topologie, and
1935 P. Alexandroff and H. Hopf, Topologie (Alain Herreman)
1934, 1939 David Hilbert and Paul Bernays,
Grundlagen der Mathematik (Wilfried Sieg)
List of contributors.
Index.
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ISBN-13: 978-0-444-50871-3
ISBN-10: 0-444-50871-6
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