A study of the Traité des indivisibles of Gilles Persone de Roberval
Subtitle: with a view to answering, insofar as is possible, the two questions: which propositions contained therein are his own, and which are due to his predecessors or contemporaries? and what effect, if any, had this work on his successors?
By: New York, Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1932.
Contributors: Roberval, Giles Personne de, 1602-1675.
Publisher: AMS Press
Published: 1972
Place of publication: [New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Roberval, Gilles Personne de, 1602-1675.; Calculus.; Curves.; Mathematics -- Early works to 1800.
Notes: Reprint of the 1932 ed., issued in series: Teachers College, Columbia University. Contributions to education, no. 446.
Originally presented as the author's thesis, Columbia.
Bibliography: p. 259-268.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: Discussion of the contents of the Traité des indivisibles.; title: The translation of the Traité des indivisibles.