Bos, Henk J. M.
Lectures in the history of mathematics / Henk J. M. Bos.
— Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society ; [London] : London Mathematical Society, c1993. x, 197 p. : il. ; 26 cm. — (History of mathematics ; v. 7)
"The lectures in the present volume were given between 1970 and 1987; all but one have been published earlier."—Introduction.
Incluye referencias bibliográficas.
Contenido: 1. Recognition and wonder: Huygens, tractional motion, and some thoughts on the history of mathematics — 2. The concept of construction and the representation of curves in seventeenth-century mathematics — 3. The structure of Descartes's Géométrie — 4. Christiaan Huygens — 5. The fundamental concepts of the Leibnizian calculus — 6. The lemniscate of Bernoulli — 7. Calculus in the eighteenth century: the rôle of applications — 8. The closure theorem of Poncelet — 9. Elements of mathematics: they are no longer what they used to be — 10. "Queen and servant": the role of mathematics in the development of the sciences — 11. Mathematics and its social context: a dialogue in the staff room, with historical episodes.
ISBN 0821809202. — ISBN 0821890018
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