Contributor
Grattan-Guinness, I.
Imprint:Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier 2005
Descriptionxvii, 1022 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Note:First edition, 2005
Note:1. 1649 René Descartes, Geometria (M. Serfati) -- 2. 1656 John Wallis, Arithmetica infinitorum (Jacqueline Stedall) -- 3. 1673 Christiaan Huygens, book on the pendulum clock (Joella G. Yoder) -- 4. 1684-1693 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, first three paperes on the calculus (C.S. Roero) -- 5. 1687 Isaac Newton, Philosophia naturalis principia mathematica (Niccolò Guicciardini) -- 6. 1713 Jakob Bernoulli, Ars conjectandi (Ivo Schneider) -- 7. 1718 Abraham De Moivre, The doctrine of chances (Ivo Schneider) -- 8. 1734 George Berkley, The analyst (D.M. Jesseph) -- 9. 1738 Daniel Bernoulli, Hydrodynamica (G.K. Mikhailov) -- 10. 1742 Colin MacLaurin, A treatise of fluxions (Erik Sageng) -- 11. 1743 Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Traité de dynamique (Pierre Crépel) -- 12. 1744 Leonhard Euler, book on the calculus of variations (Craiag G. Fraser) -- 13. 1748 Leonhard Euler, 'Introduction" to analysis (Karin Reich) -- 14. 1755 Leonhard Euler, treatise on the differential calculus (S.S. Demidov) -- 15. 1764 Thomas Bayes, An essay towards solving a problem in the doctrine of chances (A.I. Dale) -- 16. 1788 Joseph Louis Lagrange, Méchanique analitique (Helmut Pulte) -- 17. 1795 Gaspard Monge, Géométrie descriptive (Joël Sakarovitch) -- 1796, 1799-1827 P.S. Laplace, Exposition du système du monde, and Traité du mécanique céleste (I. Grattan-Guinness) -- 19. 1797 Joseph Louis Lagrange, Théorie des fonctions analytiques (Craig G. Fraser) -- 20. 1797-1800 S.F. Lacroix, Traitédu calcul différentiel et du calcul intégral (Joãl Caramalho Domingues) -- 21. 1799-1802 Jean-Etienne Montucla, Histoire des mathématiques, 2d ed. (Pierre Crépel, Alain Coste) -- 22. 1801 Carl Friedrich Gauss, Disquisitiones arithmeticae (O. Neumann) -- 23. 1809 Carl Friedrich Gauss, book on celestial mechanics (Curtis Wilson) -- 24. 1812, 1814 P.S. Laplace, Théorie analytique des probabilités, and Essai philosophique sur les probabilités (Stephen M. Stigler) -- 25. 1821, 1823 A.-L. Caughy, Cours d'analyse, and Résumé of the calculus (I. Grattan-Guinness)
Note:26. 1822 Joseph Fourier, Théorie analytique de la chaleur (I. Grattan-Guinness) -- 27. 1822 Jean Victor Poncelet, Traité des propriétés projectives des figures (Jeremy Gray) -- 28. 1825, 1827 A.-L. Cauchy, two memoirs on complex-variable function theory (the late F. Smithies) -- 29. 1826 Niels Henrik Abel, paper on the irresolvability of the quintic equation (Roger Cooke) -- 30. 1828 George Green, An essay on the mathematical analysis of electricity and magnetism (I. Grattan-Guinness) -- 31. 1929 C.G.J. Jacobi, book on elliptic functions (Roger Cooke) -- 32. 1844 Hermann G. Grassmann, Ausdehnungslehre (Albert C. Lewis) -- 33. 1847 Karl Georg Christian von Staudt, book on projective geometry (Karin Reich) -- 34. 1951 Bernhard Riemann, thesis on the theory of functions of a complex variable (Peter Ullrich) -- 35. 1853 William Rowan Hamilton, Lectures on quaternions (Albert C. Lewis) -- 36. 1854 George Boole, An investigation of the laws of thought on which are founded the mathematical theory of logic and probabilities (I. Grattan-Guinness) -- 37. 1863 Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune-Dirichlet, Vorlesungen über Zahlentheorie (Catherine Goldstein) -- 38. 1867 Bernhard Riemann, posthumous thesis on the representation of functions by trigonometric series (David Mascré) -- 39. Bernhard Riemann, posthumous thesis 'On the hypotheses which lie at the foundation of geometry' (Jeremy Gray) -- 40. 1867 William Thomson, Peter Guthrie Tait, Treatise on natural philosophy (M. Norton Wise) -- 41. 1871 Stanley Jevons, The theory of political economy (Jean-Pierre Potier, Jan van Daal) -- 42. 1872 Felix Klein's Erlangen Program, 'Comparative considerations of recent geometrical researches' (Jeremy Gray) -- 43. 1872 Richard Dedekind, Stetigkeit und irrationale Zahlen (Roger Cooke) -- 44. 1873 James Clerk Maxwell, A treatise on electricity and magnetism (F. Achard) -- 45. 1877-1878 J.W. Strutt, Third Baron Rayleigh, The theory of sound (Ja Hyon Ku) -- 46. 1883 Georg Cantor, paper on the 'Foundations of a general set theory' (Joseph W. Dauben) -- 47. 1888, 1889 Richard Dedekind and Giuseppe Peano, booklets on the foundations of arithmetic (J. Ferreirós) -- 48. 1890 Henri Poincaré, Memoir on the three-body problem (June Barrow-Green) -- 49. 1892 Oliver Heaviside, Electrical papers (Ido Yavetz) -- 50. 1892 Walter William Rouse Ball, Mathematical recreations and problems of past and present times (David Singmaster)
Note:51. 1892 Alexandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov, thesis on the stability of motion (J. Mawhin) -- 52. 1894 Heinrich Hertz, posthumous book on mechanics (Jesper Lützen) -- 53. 1895-1896 Heinrich Weber, Lehrbuch der Algebra (Leo Corry) -- 54. 1897 David Hilbert, report on algebraic number fields ('Zahlbericht') (Norbert Schappacher) -- 55. 1899 David Hilbert, Grundlagen der Geometrie (Michael Toepell) -- 56. 1900 Karl Pearson, paper on the chi square goodness of fit test (M.E. Magnello) 57. 1901 David Hilbert, paper on 'Mathematical problems' (Michiel Hazewinkel) -- 58. 1904 Lord Kelvin, Baltimore lectures on mathematical physics (Ole Knudsen) -- 59. 1904-1906 Henri Lebesgue and René Baire, three books on mathematical analysis (Roger Cooke) -- 60. 1909 H.A. Lorentz, Lectures on electron theory (A.J. Kox) -- 61. 1910-1913 A.N. Whitehead and Bertrand Russell, Principia mathematica (I. Grattan-Guinness) -- 62. 1915-1934 Federigo Enriques and Oscar Chisini, Lectures on 'the geometrical theory of equations and algebraic functions' (A. Conte) -- 63. 1916 Albert Einstein, review paper on general relativity theory (T. Sauer) -- 64. 1917 D'Archy Wentworth Thompson, On growth and form (T.J. Horder) -- 65. 1919-1923 Leonard Dickson, History of the theory of numbers (Della D. Fenster) -- 66. 1923-1926 Paul Urysohn and Karl Menger, papers on dimension theory (Tony Crilly) -- 67. 1925 R.A. Fisher, Statistical methods for research workers (A.W.F. Edwards) -- 68. 1927 George David Birkhoff, Dynamical systems (David Aubin) -- 69 1930, 1932 P.A.M. Dirac and J. von Neumann, books on quantum mechanics (Laurie M. Brown and Helmut Rechenberg) -- 70. 1930-1931 B.L. van der Waerden, Moderne Algebra (K.-H. Schlote) -- 71. 1931 Kurt Gödel, paper on the incompleteness theorems (Richard Zach) -- 72. 1931, Walter Andrew Shewhart, Economic control of quality of manufactured product (Denis Bayart) -- 73. 1931 Vito Volterra, book on mathematical biology (G. Israel) -- 74. 1932 S. Bochner, lectures on Fourier integrals (Roger Cooke) -- 75. 1933 A.N. Kolmogorov, Grundbegriffe der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung (Jan von Plato) -- 76. 1934, 1935 H. Seifert and W. Threlfall, and P.S. Alexandroff and H.Hopf, books on topology (Alain Herreman) -- 77. 1934-1939 David Hilbert and Paul Bernays, Grundlagen der Mathematik (Wilfried Sieg and Mark Ravaglia)
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