The Arithmetic of Infinitesimals

John Wallis, Jacqueline A. Stedall

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English

Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
27 August 2004

Mathematics & Sciences; History of mathematics

Series: Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences

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.

By: John Wallis
Introduction by: Jacqueline A. Stedall
Imprint: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 1.110kg
ISBN: 9780387207094
ISBN 10: 0387207090
Series: Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 27 August 2004
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Arithmetic of Infinitesimals

Aus den Rezensionen: ! Die vorliegende ! Aubersetzung ins Englische legt eines der wichtigsten und einflussreichsten Bucher des vor-Newtonschen Zeitalters in unsere Hande. Ohne Zweifel hat Arithmetica Infinitorum den Weg zur Fluxionenrechnung geebnet und muss daher als Werk von unschatzbarem Wert fur historisch und mathematisch interessierte Leser eingeschatzt werden. ! Jeder historisch interessierte Mathematiker - Analytiker allenthalben - sollte dieses Buch griffbereit haben! (Thomas Sonar, Aus der Geschichte der Analysis und der numerischen Mathematik, in: Mathematische Semesterberichte, 2005, Vol. 52, Issue 1, S. 91 ff.)