Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics  1640-1940
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Published: May 20, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1040
ISBN-13: 9780444508713
First sentence: The main biographical source, the Vie de M. Descartes by Father Baillet [1691], is sometimes unreliable; so we supplement it with the critical biography [Rodis-Lewis, 1995].