The Arithmetic of Infinitesimals

1. Auflage. Softcover version of original hardcover Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-1-4419-1922-9
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 359 g

Reihe: Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences

John Wallis (1616-1703) was the most influential English mathematician prior to Newton.  He published his most famous work, Arithmetica Infinitorum, in Latin in 1656.  This book studied the quadrature of curves and systematised the analysis of Descartes and Cavelieri.  Upon publication, this text immediately became the standard book on the subject and was frequently referred to by subsequent writers.  This will be the first English translation of this text ever to be published.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wallis, John

Weitere Mitwirkende

Stedall, Jacqueline A.

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Geschichte der Mathematik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Algebra Zahlentheorie
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematische Analysis

Inhaltsverzeichnis

To the most Distinguished and Worthy gentleman and most Skilled Mathematician, Dr William Oughtred, Rector of the church of Aldbury in the Country of Surrey.- To the Most Respected Gentleman Doctor William Oughtred, most widely famed amongst mathematicians, by John Wallis, Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford.- Doctor William Oughtred: A Response to the preceding letter (after the book went to press). In which he makes it known what he thought of that method.- The Arithmetic of Infinitesimals or a New Method of Inquiring into the Quadrature of Curves, and other more difficult mathematical problems.

Über Autor(innen)

John Wallis was appointed Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford University in 1649

Dr J.A. Stedall is a Junior Research Fellow at Queen's University. She has written a number of papers exploring the history of algebra, particularly the algebra of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Her two previous books, A Discourse Concerning Algebra: English Algebra to 1685 (2002) and The Greate Invention of Algebra: Thomas Harriot’s Treatise on Equations (2003), were both published by Oxford University Press.