A historian looks back
Subtitle: the calculus as algebra and selected writings
By: by Judith V. Grabiner
Series: Spectrum series; MAA spectrum
Publisher: Mathematical Association of America; American Mathematical Society; The Mathematical Association of America
Published: 2010
Place of publication: [Washington, DC]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780883855720
Subjects: Calculus; Functional analysis; History; Analyse (wiskunde); Mathematics; Functionaalanalyse; Reprints
Other titles: Calculus as algebra and selected writings
Notes: "Part I was formerly published as The calculus as algebra: J.-L. Lagrange, 1736-1813 by Garland Publishing, New York, 1990."--P. facing t.p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The calculus as algebra --; title: The mathematician, the historian, and the history of mathematics --; title: Who gave you the epsilon? Cauchy and the origins of rigorous calculus --; title: The changing concept of change: the derivative from Fermat to Weierstrass --; title: The centrality of mathematics in the history of western thought --; title: Descartes and problem-solving --; title: The calculus as algebra, the calculus as geometry: Lagrange, Maclaurin, and their legacy --; title: Was Newton's calculus a dead end? the continental influence of Maclaurin's treatise of fluxions --; title: Newton, Maclaurin, and the authority of mathematics --; title: Why should historical truth matter to mathematicians? dispelling myths while promoting maths --; title: Why did Lagrange "prove" the parallel postulate?