The Rise and Development of the Theory of Series up to the Early 1820s (Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences)

by Giovanni Ferraro (Author)

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  2008

  $187.23

  The manuscript gives a detailed account of the theory of series in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It presents the subject from the viewpoint of the mathematicians of the period, and distinguishes earlier conceptions from ones that prevail today.