The History of the Calculus and Its Conceptual Development

The History of the Calculus and Its Conceptual DevelopmentThis book, for the first time, provides laymen and mathematicians alike with a detailed picture of the historical development of one of the most momentous achievements of the human intellect the calculus. It describes with accuracy and perspective the long development of both the integral and the differential calculus from their early beginnings in antiquity to their final emancipation in the 19th century from both physical and metaphysical ideas

An entire chapter focuses on the influential doctrines of Pythagoras

the material skillfully spans the pure and applied branches in the familiar French manner

the Nobel Prize–winning author maintains an excellent balance between theoretical and descriptive material

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