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OverviewThe book is the first English translation of John Wallis's Arithmetica Infinitorum (1656), a key text on the seventeenth-century development of the calculus. Accompanied with annotations and an introductory essay, the translation makes Wallis's work fully available for the first time to modern readers. It shows how Wallis drew on some of the most important new ideas from the preceding twenty years, and took them forward to lay the foundations on which Newton was to build. Above all, the book displays the crucial mid-seventeenth-century shift from geometry to arithmetic and algebra as the primary language of mathematics. Full Product DetailsAuthor: John Wallis , Jacqueline A. StedallPublisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Imprint: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004 Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.730kg ISBN: 9781441919229ISBN 10: 1441919228 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 29 November 2010 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsTo the most Distinguished and Worthy gentleman and most Skilled Mathematician, Dr William Oughtred, Rector of the church of Aldbury in the Country of Surrey.- To the Most Respected Gentleman Doctor William Oughtred, most widely famed amongst mathematicians, by John Wallis, Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford.- Doctor William Oughtred: A Response to the preceding letter (after the book went to press). In which he makes it known what he thought of that method.- The Arithmetic of Infinitesimals or a New Method of Inquiring into the Quadrature of Curves, and other more difficult mathematical problems.ReviewsAus den Rezensionen: ! Die vorliegende ! Aubersetzung ins Englische legt eines der wichtigsten und einflussreichsten Bucher des vor-Newtonschen Zeitalters in unsere Hande. Ohne Zweifel hat Arithmetica Infinitorum den Weg zur Fluxionenrechnung geebnet und muss daher als Werk von unschatzbarem Wert fur historisch und mathematisch interessierte Leser eingeschatzt werden. ! Jeder historisch interessierte Mathematiker - Analytiker allenthalben - sollte dieses Buch griffbereit haben! (Thomas Sonar, Aus der Geschichte der Analysis und der numerischen Mathematik, in: Mathematische Semesterberichte, 2005, Vol. 52, Issue 1, S. 91 ff.) Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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