The Arithmetic Of Infinitesimals
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The Arithmetic Of Infinitesimals
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Author : John Wallis
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-06-29
The Arithmetic Of Infinitesimals written by John Wallis and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-29 with Mathematics categories.
The book is the first English translation of John Wallis's Arithmetica Infinitorum (1656), a key text on the seventeenth-century development of the calculus. Accompanied with annotations and an introductory essay, the translation makes Wallis's work fully available for the first time to modern readers. It shows how Wallis drew on some of the most important new ideas from the preceding twenty years, and took them forward to lay the foundations on which Newton was to build. Above all, the book displays the crucial mid-seventeenth-century shift from geometry to arithmetic and algebra as the primary language of mathematics.
Infinitesimal
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Author : Amir Alexander
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2014-04-08
Infinitesimal written by Amir Alexander and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-08 with Mathematics categories.
Pulsing with drama and excitement, Infinitesimal celebrates the spirit of discovery, innovation, and intellectual achievement-and it will forever change the way you look at a simple line. On August 10, 1632, five men in flowing black robes convened in a somber Roman palazzo to pass judgment on a deceptively simple proposition: that a continuous line is composed of distinct and infinitely tiny parts. With the stroke of a pen the Jesuit fathers banned the doctrine of infinitesimals, announcing that it could never be taught or even mentioned. The concept was deemed dangerous and subversive, a threat to the belief that the world was an orderly place, governed by a strict and unchanging set of rules. If infinitesimals were ever accepted, the Jesuits feared, the entire world would be plunged into chaos. In Infinitesimal, the award-winning historian Amir Alexander exposes the deep-seated reasons behind the rulings of the Jesuits and shows how the doctrine persisted, becoming the foundation of calculus and much of modern mathematics and technology. Indeed, not everyone agreed with the Jesuits. Philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians across Europe embraced infinitesimals as the key to scientific progress, freedom of thought, and a more tolerant society. As Alexander reveals, it wasn't long before the two camps set off on a war that pitted Europe's forces of hierarchy and order against those of pluralism and change. The story takes us from the bloody battlefields of Europe's religious wars and the English Civil War and into the lives of the greatest mathematicians and philosophers of the day, including Galileo and Isaac Newton, Cardinal Bellarmine and Thomas Hobbes, and Christopher Clavius and John Wallis. In Italy, the defeat of the infinitely small signaled an end to that land's reign as the cultural heart of Europe, and in England, the triumph of infinitesimals helped launch the island nation on a course that would make it the world's first modern state. From the imperial cities of Germany to the green hills of Surrey, from the papal palace in Rome to the halls of the Royal Society of London, Alexander demonstrates how a disagreement over a mathematical concept became a contest over the heavens and the earth. The legitimacy of popes and kings, as well as our beliefs in human liberty and progressive science, were at stake-the soul of the modern world hinged on the infinitesimal.
Non Standard Analysis
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Author : Abraham Robinson
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2016-08-11
Non Standard Analysis written by Abraham Robinson and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-11 with Mathematics categories.
Considered by many to be Abraham Robinson's magnum opus, this book offers an explanation of the development and applications of non-standard analysis by the mathematician who founded the subject. Non-standard analysis grew out of Robinson's attempt to resolve the contradictions posed by infinitesimals within calculus. He introduced this new subject in a seminar at Princeton in 1960, and it remains as controversial today as it was then. This paperback reprint of the 1974 revised edition is indispensable reading for anyone interested in non-standard analysis. It treats in rich detail many areas of application, including topology, functions of a real variable, functions of a complex variable, and normed linear spaces, together with problems of boundary layer flow of viscous fluids and rederivations of Saint-Venant's hypothesis concerning the distribution of stresses in an elastic body.
Foundations Of Infinitesimal Calculus
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Author : H. Jerome Keisler
language : en
Publisher: Prindle Weber & Schmidt
Release Date : 1976-01-01
Foundations Of Infinitesimal Calculus written by H. Jerome Keisler and has been published by Prindle Weber & Schmidt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976-01-01 with Mathematics categories.
A Material History Of Medieval And Early Modern Ciphers
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Author : Katherine Ellison
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-14
A Material History Of Medieval And Early Modern Ciphers written by Katherine Ellison and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
The first cultural history of early modern cryptography, this collection brings together scholars in history, literature, music, the arts, mathematics, and computer science who study ciphering and deciphering from new materialist, media studies, cognitive studies, disability studies, and other theoretical perspectives. Essays analyze the material forms of ciphering as windows into the cultures of orality, manuscript, print, and publishing, revealing that early modern ciphering, and the complex history that preceded it in the medieval period, not only influenced political and military history but also played a central role in the emergence of the capitalist media state in the West, in religious reformation, and in the scientific revolution. Ciphered communication, whether in etched stone and bone, in musical notae, runic symbols, polyalphabetic substitution, algebraic equations, graphic typographies, or literary metaphors, took place in contested social spaces and offered a means of expression during times of political, economic, and personal upheaval. Ciphering shaped the early history of linguistics as a discipline, and it bridged theological and scientific rhetoric before and during the Reformation. Ciphering was an occult art, a mathematic language, and an aesthetic that influenced music, sculpture, painting, drama, poetry, and the early novel. This collection addresses gaps in cryptographic history, but more significantly, through cultural analyses of the rhetorical situations of ciphering and actual solved and unsolved medieval and early modern ciphers, it traces the influences of cryptographic writing and reading on literacy broadly defined as well as the cultures that generate, resist, and require that literacy. This volume offers a significant contribution to the history of the book, highlighting the broader cultural significance of textual materialities.
A Primer Of Infinitesimal Analysis
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Author : John L. Bell
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2008-04-07
A Primer Of Infinitesimal Analysis written by John L. Bell and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-07 with Mathematics categories.
A rigorous, axiomatically formulated presentation of the 'zero-square', or 'nilpotent' infinitesimal.
The Continuous The Discrete And The Infinitesimal In Philosophy And Mathematics
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Author : John L. Bell
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2019-09-09
The Continuous The Discrete And The Infinitesimal In Philosophy And Mathematics written by John L. Bell and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-09 with Mathematics categories.
This book explores and articulates the concepts of the continuous and the infinitesimal from two points of view: the philosophical and the mathematical. The first section covers the history of these ideas in philosophy. Chapter one, entitled ‘The continuous and the discrete in Ancient Greece, the Orient and the European Middle Ages,’ reviews the work of Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, and other Ancient Greeks; the elements of early Chinese, Indian and Islamic thought; and early Europeans including Henry of Harclay, Nicholas of Autrecourt, Duns Scotus, William of Ockham, Thomas Bradwardine and Nicolas Oreme. The second chapter of the book covers European thinkers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: Galileo, Newton, Leibniz, Descartes, Arnauld, Fermat, and more. Chapter three, 'The age of continuity,’ discusses eighteenth century mathematicians including Euler and Carnot, and philosophers, among them Hume, Kant and Hegel. Examining the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the fourth chapter describes the reduction of the continuous to the discrete, citing the contributions of Bolzano, Cauchy and Reimann. Part one of the book concludes with a chapter on divergent conceptions of the continuum, with the work of nineteenth and early twentieth century philosophers and mathematicians, including Veronese, Poincaré, Brouwer, and Weyl. Part two of this book covers contemporary mathematics, discussing topology and manifolds, categories, and functors, Grothendieck topologies, sheaves, and elementary topoi. Among the theories presented in detail are non-standard analysis, constructive and intuitionist analysis, and smooth infinitesimal analysis/synthetic differential geometry. No other book so thoroughly covers the history and development of the concepts of the continuous and the infinitesimal.
The Continuous And The Infinitesimal In Mathematics And Philosophy
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Author : John Lane Bell
language : en
Publisher: Polimetrica s.a.s.
Release Date : 2005
The Continuous And The Infinitesimal In Mathematics And Philosophy written by John Lane Bell and has been published by Polimetrica s.a.s. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Mathematics categories.
Real Analysis Through Modern Infinitesimals
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Author : Nader Vakil
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-02-17
Real Analysis Through Modern Infinitesimals written by Nader Vakil and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-17 with Mathematics categories.
A coherent, self-contained treatment of the central topics of real analysis employing modern infinitesimals.
A Discourse Concerning Algebra
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Author : Jacqueline A. Stedall
language : en
Publisher: Mathematics
Release Date : 2002
A Discourse Concerning Algebra written by Jacqueline A. Stedall and has been published by Mathematics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Mathematics categories.
A Discourse Concerning Algebra, provides a new and readable account of the rise of algebra in England from the Medieval period to the later years of the 17th Century.Stedall's book follows the reception and dissemination of important algebraic ideas and methods from continental Europe and the consequent revolution in the state of English mathematics in the 17th century.