The Calculus Gallery : Masterpieces from Newton to Lebesgue / William Dunham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dunham, William, author.

Contributor:

Dunham, William.

Series:

Princeton science library.

Princeton Science Library ; 60

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Calculus--History.

Calculus.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages).

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

More than three centuries after its creation, calculus remains a dazzling intellectual achievement and the gateway to higher mathematics. This book charts its growth and development by sampling from the work of some of its foremost practitioners, beginning with Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in the late seventeenth century and continuing to Henri Lebesgue at the dawn of the twentieth. Now with a new preface by the author, this book documents the evolution of calculus from a powerful but logically chaotic subject into one whose foundations are thorough, rigorous, and unflinching-a story of genius triumphing over some of the toughest, subtlest problems imaginable. In touring The Calculus Gallery, we can see how it all came to be.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Preface to the Princeton Science Library Edition

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1. Newton

CHAPTER 2. Leibniz

CHAPTER 3. The Bernoullis

CHAPTER 4. Euler

CHAPTER 5. First Interlude

CHAPTER 6. Cauchy

CHAPTER 7. Riemann

CHAPTER 8. Liouville

CHAPTER 9. Weierstrass

CHAPTER 10. Second Interlude

CHAPTER 11. Cantor

CHAPTER 12. Volterra

CHAPTER 13. Baire

CHAPTER 14. Lebesgue

Afterword

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-691-18454-2

OCLC:

1050754035