E-Book, Englisch, Band 35, 468 Seiten, eBook
Caramalho Domingues Lacroix and the Calculus
2008
ISBN: 978-3-7643-8638-2
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
E-Book, Englisch, Band 35, 468 Seiten, eBook
Reihe: Science Networks. Historical Studies
ISBN: 978-3-7643-8638-2
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
Silvestre François Lacroix was not a prominent mathematical researcher, but he was certainly a most influential mathematical book author. His most famous work is the three-volume Traité du calcul différentiel et du calcul intégral, which is an encyclopedic appraisal of 18th-century calculus that remained the standard reference on the subject through much of the 19th century. This book provides the first global and detailed study of Lacroix's Traité Traité du calcul.
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Introduction.- A short biography of Silvestre-François Lacroix.- An overview of Lacroix’s Traité.- The principles of the calculus.- Analytic and differential geometry.- Approximate integration and conceptions of the integral.- Types of solutions of differential equations.- Aspects of differences and series.- The Traité élémentaire.- The second edition of the Traité.- final remarks.- Two memoirs by Lacroix.- Lacroix’s historical appraisal of his own Traité.- Syllabi of Lacroix’s course of analysis at the École Polytechnique.- Biographical data on a few obscure characters.- Bibliography.
