A Source Book in Mathematics, 1200-1800 / edited by D. J. Struik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Struik, Dirk J. (Dirk Jan), 1894-2000, compiler.

Contributor:

Mark B. Adams Emergence of Modern Science Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Source books in the history of the sciences

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematics--Early works to 1800.

Mathematics.

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Mark B. (former owner) (autograph) (Adams copy)

Physical Description:

xiv pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 427 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1969.

Contents:

Chapter I. Arithmetic

Chapter II. Algebra

Chapter III. Geometry

Chapter IV. Analysis before Newton and Leibniz

Chapter V. Newton, Leibniz, and their school.

Notes:

"This 'Source Book' contains 75 excerpts from the writings of Western mathematicians from the thirteenth to the end of the eighteenth century. The selection has been confined to pure mathematics or to those fields of applied mathematics that had a direct bearing on the development of pure mathematics."

"All the excerpts are translated into English. Some of the translations have been newly made by Mr. and Mrs. Struik; if a translation was already available it has been used, but in every such case it has been checked against the original and amended or corrected where it seemed necessary."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.

Adams copy has dust jacket retained.

Adams copy has autograph of Mark B. Adams July, 1969.

OCLC:

442245