Shaping Modern Mathematics
Ghosts of Departed Quantities: Calculus and its Limits by Professor Raymond Flood. In 1734 Bishop Berkeley published a witty and effective attack on the foundations of the calculus as developed by Newton and Leibniz. But it took nearly 90 years for the calculus to be given a rigorous foundation through the work of the prolific mathematician, Augustin-Louis Cauchy, who formalised the concept of a limit and created the specialism now called analysis. (from gresham.ac.uk)
| Ghosts of Departed Quantities: Calculus and its Limits |
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| 1. Ghosts of Departed Quantities: Calculus and its Limits |
| 2. Polynomials and their Roots |
| 3. From One to Many Geometries |
| 4. The Queen of Mathematics |
| 5. Are Averages Typical? |
| 6. Modeling the World |