A Revaluation of Harriot's Artis Analyticae Praxis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Revaluation of Harriot's Artis Analyticae Praxis write by Florian Cajori. This book was released on 1928. A Revaluation of Harriot's Artis Analyticae Praxis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
From Discrete to Continuous
From Discrete to Continuous - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Discrete to Continuous write by K. Neal. This book was released on 2013-06-29. From Discrete to Continuous available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the early modern period, a crucial transformation occurred in the classical conception of number and magnitude. Traditionally, numbers were merely collections of discrete units that measured some multiple. Magnitude, on the other hand, was usually described as being continuous, or being divisible into parts that are infinitely divisible. This traditional idea of discrete number versus continuous magnitude was challenged in the early modern period in several ways. This detailed study explores how the development of algebraic symbolism, logarithms, and the growing practical demands for an expanded number concept all contributed to a broadening of the number concept in early modern England. An interest in solving practical problems was not, in itself, enough to cause a generalisation of the number concept. It was the combined impact of novel practical applications together with the concomitant development of such mathematical advances as algebraic notation and logarithms that produced a broadened number concept.
A Discourse Concerning Algebra
A Discourse Concerning Algebra - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Discourse Concerning Algebra write by Jacqueline A. Stedall. This book was released on 2003-01-16. A Discourse Concerning Algebra available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For historians of mathematics and those interested in the history of science, 'A Discourse Concerning Algebra' provides an new and readable account of the rise of algebra in England from the Medieval period to the later years of the 17th century. Including new research, this is the most detailed study to date of early modern English algebra, which builds on work published in 1685 by John Wallis (Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford) on the history of algebra. Stedall's book follows the reception and dissemination of important algebraic ideas and methods from continental Europe (especially those of Viéte) and the consequent revolution in the state of English mathematics in the 17th century. The text emphasises the contribution of Wallis, but substantial reference is also provided to other important mathematicans such as Harriot, Oughtred, Pell and Brouncker.
The Invention of Discovery, 1500–1700
The Invention of Discovery, 1500–1700 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Invention of Discovery, 1500–1700 write by Dr James Dougal Fleming. This book was released on 2013-05-28. The Invention of Discovery, 1500–1700 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The early modern period used to be known as the Age of Discovery. More recently, it has been troped as an age of invention. But was the invention/discovery binary itself invented, or discovered? This volume investigates the possibility that it was invented, through a range of early modern knowledge practices, centered on the emergence of modern natural science. From Bacon to Galileo, from stagecraft to math, from martyrology to romance, contributors to this interdisciplinary collection examine the period's generation of discovery as an absolute and ostensibly neutral standard of knowledge-production. They further investigate the hermeneutic implications for the epistemological authority that tends, in modernity, still to be based on that standard. The Invention of Discovery, 1500–1700 is a set of attempts to think back behind discovery, considered as a decisive trope for modern knowledge.
History of Analytic Geometry
History of Analytic Geometry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook History of Analytic Geometry write by Carl B. Boyer. This book was released on 2012-06-28. History of Analytic Geometry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study presents the concepts and contributions from before the Alexandrian Age through to Fermat and Descartes, and on through Newton and Euler to the "Golden Age," from 1789 to 1850. 1956 edition. Analytical bibliography. Index.
