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Elsevier Landmark Writings In Western Mathematics 1640-1940 by Ivor Grattan-Guinness
This book contains around 80 articles on major writings in mathematics published between 1640 and 1940. All aspects of mathematics are covered: pure and applied, probability and statistics, foundations and philosophy. Sometimes two writings from the same period and the same subject are taken together. The biography of the author(s) is recorded, and the circumstances of the preparation of the writing are given. When the writing is of some lengths an analytical table of its contents is supplied. The contents of the writing is reviewed, and its impact described, at least for the immediate decades. Each article ends with a bibliography of primary and secondary items._x000D_ _x000D_A selection of contents: _x000D_
1649 Rene Descartes, Geometria (Michel Serfati) _x000D_
1684 G.W. Leibniz, first two calculus papers (Silvia Roero) _x000D_
1687 Isaac Newton, Principia mathematica (Niccolo Guicciardini) _x000D_
1713 James Bernoulli, De arte conjectandi (Ivo Schneider) _x000D_
1738 Daniel Bernoulli, Hydrodynamica (Gleb Mikhailov) _x000D_
1743 Jean le Rond dAlembert, Traite de dynamique (Helmut Pulte) _x000D_
1748 Leonhard Euler, Introductio ad analysin infinitorum (Karin Reich) _x000D_
1755 Leonhard Euler, Differentialis (Sergei Demidov) _x000D_
1763 Thomas Bayes and Richard Price, paper on probability theory (Andrew Dale) _x000D_
1788 J.L. Lagrange, Mechanique analitique (Helmut Pulte) _x000D_
1799-1805 P.S. Laplace, Exposition du systeme du monde, second edition, and Mecanique celeste (I. Grattan-Guinness) _x000D_
1801 C.F. Gauss, Disquisitiones arithmeticae (Olaf Neumann) _x000D_
1812, 1814 P.S. Laplace, Theorie analytique des probabilites and Essai philosophique (Stephen M. Stigler) _x000D_
1821, 1823 A.-L. Cauchy, Cours danalyse and Resume of the calculus (I. Grattan-Guinness) _x000D_
1822 J.B.J. Fourier, Theorie analytique de la chaleur (I. Grattan-Guinness) _x000D_
1822 J.V. Poncelet, Traite des proprietes projectives des figures (Jeremy Gray) _x000D_
1844 Hermann Grassmann, Die lineale Ausdehnungslehre (Albert Lewis) _x000D_
1851 Bernhard Riemann, thesis on complex-variable analysis (Peter Ullrich) _x000D_
1853 W.R. Hamilton, Lectures on quaternions (Albert Lewis) _x000D_
1854 George Boole, Laws of thought (I. Grattan-Guinness) _x000D_
1862 J.P.G. Lejeune-Dirichlet and Richard Dedekind, Vorlesungen uber Zahlentheorie (Catherine Goldstein) _x000D_
1867 W. Thomson and P.G. Tait, Treatise on natural philosophy (Norton Wise) _x000D_
1867 Bernhard Riemann, thesis on the foundations of geometries (Jeremy Gray) _x000D_
1872 Felix Klein, essay on the Erlangen programme (Jeremy Gray) _x000D_
1872-1891 Oliver Heaviside, Electrical papers (Ido Yavetz) _x000D_
1881 Henri Poincare, prize essay on the three-body problem (June Barrow-Green) _x000D_
1897 David Hilbert, report on number theory (Norbert Schappacher) _x000D_
1899 David Hilbert, Grundlagen der Geometrie (Michael Toepell) _x000D_
1900 David Hilbert, lecture on mathematical problems (Michiel Hazewinkel) _x000D_
1900 Karl Pearson, papers on statistics (Eileen Magnello) _x000D_
1904-1905 Henri Lebesgue, books on Integration and on Series trigonometriques, and _x000D_
1915-1916 Albert Einstein, papers on general relativity theory (Tilman Sauer) _x000D_
1917 dArcy Wentworth Thompson, On growth and form (Tim Horder) _x000D_
1925 R.A. Fisher, Statistical methods for research workers (Anthony Edwards) _x000D_
1927 G.D. Birkhoff, Dynamical systems (David Aubin) _x000D_
1930 Paul Dirac, Principles of quantum mechanics and _x000D_
1930-1931 B.L. van der Waerden, Moderne Algebra (Karl-Heinz Schlote) _x000D_
1933 Andrei Kolmogorov, Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung (Jan von Plato) _x000D_
1934, 1939 David Hilbert and Paul Bernays, Grundlagen der Mathematik (Wilfried Sieg)_x000D_