Calculus Gallery Masterpieces from Newton to Lebesgue

Name: Calculus Gallery Masterpieces from Newton to Lebesgue
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ISBN: 9780691136264

ISBN-10: 0691136262

ISBN-13: 9780691136264

Edition: 2005

Authors: William Dunham

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More than three centuries after its creation, calculus remains a dazzling intellectual achievement and the gateway into higher mathematics. This book charts its growth and development by sampling from the work of some of its foremost practitioners, beginning with Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in the late seventeenth century and continuing to Henri Lebesgue at the dawn of the twentieth--mathematicians whose achievements are comparable to those of Bach in music or Shakespeare in literature. William Dunham lucidly presents the definitions, theorems, and proofs. "Students of literature read Shakespeare; students of music listen to Bach," he writes. But this tradition of studying…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 7/21/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.13" long x 0.57" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English



Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Newton



Leibniz



The Bernoullis



Euler



First Interlude



Cauchy



Riemann



Liouville



Weierstrass



Second Interlude



Cantor



Volterra



Baire



Lebesgue


Afterword


Notes


Index