The Mathematical Works of Isaac Barrow

Edited for Trinity College
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-108-05933-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 788 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 1256 g

Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Mathematics

The Cambridge polymath Isaac Barrow (1630-77) gained recognition as a theologian, classicist and mathematician. This one-volume collection of his mathematical writings, dutifully edited by one of his successors as Master of Trinity College, William Whewell (1794-1866), was first published in 1860. Containing significant contributions to the field, the work consists chiefly of the lectures on mathematics, optics and geometry that Barrow gave in his position as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics between 1663 and 1669. It includes the first general statement of the fundamental theorem of calculus as well as Barrow's 'differential triangle'. Not only did he precede Isaac Newton in the Lucasian chair, but his works were also to be found in the library of Gottfried Leibniz. However, rather than considering arid questions of priority, scholars can see in these Latin texts the status of advanced mathematics just before the great revolution of Newton and Leibniz.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barrow, Isaac

Whewell, William

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Geometrie Geometrie der modernen Physik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Geschichte der Mathematik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; Dedication of Barrow's Euclid; Preface to the same; Preface to Barrow's Archimedes; Oratio praefatoria; Lectiones mathematicae 23; Mathematici professoris lectiones; Lectiones opticae 8; Lectiones geometricae 13; Plates.