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By: Ivor Grattan-Guinness

ISBN: 9780691070827
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2001
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Traces the development of the calculus from the early seventeenth century through its expansion into mathematical analysis to the developments in set theory and the foundations of mathematics in the early twentieth century. This book chronicles the work of mathematicians from Descartes and Newton to Russell and Hilbert and many others.


(Paperback)

By: Ivor Grattan-Guinness

ISBN: 9780691058580
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2001
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Presents the history of a critical period in mathematics that includes accounts of the two principal influences upon Russell around 1900: the set theory of Cantor and the mathematical logic of Peano and his followers. This work provides surveys of many related topics and figures of the late nineteenth century.