Tous les ebooks de la collection "Frontiers in the History of Science" - Birkhäuser

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Télécharger le livre : Leibniz on the Foundations of the Differential Calculus
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Leibniz on the Foundations of the Differential Calculus
Richard T. W. Arthur , David Rabouin
This monograph presents an interpretive essay on the foundations of Leibniz’s calculus, accompanied by key texts in English translation. The essay examines Leibniz's evolving views on infinitesimals and infinite numbers, tracing their development from his early...

Editeur : Birkhäuser
Parution : 2025-03-05
Collection : Frontiers in the History of Science
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Télécharger le livre : The World of the Abbaco
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The World of the Abbaco
Jens Høyrup
The abbacus was a thorough and complete system of arithmetical calculations, which saw its dawn in the Indian and Arabic tradition of the Middle Ages, but which was developed in its fully fledged aspects especially in Italy, between Genoa, Milan, Venice and the region...

Editeur : Birkhäuser
Parution : 2024-03-25
Collection : Frontiers in the History of Science
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Télécharger le livre : Ramified Surfaces
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Ramified Surfaces
Michael Friedman
The book offers an extensive study on the convoluted history of the research of algebraic surfaces, focusing for the first time on one of its characterizing curves: the branch curve. Starting with separate beginnings during the 19th century with descriptive...

Editeur : Birkhäuser
Parution : 2022-09-26
Collection : Frontiers in the History of Science
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Télécharger le livre : Motion and Genetic Definitions in the Sixteenth-Century Euclidean Tradition
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Motion and Genetic Definitions in the Sixteenth-Century Euclidean Tradition
Angela Axworthy
A significant number of works have set forth, over the past decades, the emphasis laid by seventeenth-century mathematicians and philosophers on motion and kinematic notions in geometry. These works demonstrated the crucial role attributed in this context to genetic...

Editeur : Birkhäuser
Parution : 2022-06-11
Collection : Frontiers in the History of Science
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Télécharger le livre : The Rise and Fall of the German Combinatorial Analysis
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The Rise and Fall of the German Combinatorial Analysis
Eduardo Noble
This text presents the ideas of a particular group of mathematicians of the late 18th century known as “the German combinatorial school” and its influence. The book tackles several questions concerning the emergence and historical development of the German combinatorial...

Editeur : Birkhäuser
Parution : 2022-05-30
Collection : Frontiers in the History of Science
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Télécharger le livre : The Impossibility of Squaring the Circle in the 17th Century
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The Impossibility of Squaring the Circle in the 17th Century
Davide Crippa
This book is about James Gregory’s attempt to prove that the quadrature of the circle, the ellipse and the hyperbola cannot be found algebraically. Additonally, the subsequent debates that ensued between Gregory, Christiaan Huygens and G.W. Leibniz are presented and...

Editeur : Birkhäuser
Parution : 2019-03-06
Collection : Frontiers in the History of Science
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