William Wallace and the introduction of continental calculus to Britain: A letter to George Peacock

DOI10.1016/0315-0860(87)90016-4zbMath0623.01005OpenAlexW1980682508MaRDI QIDQ1091370

Maria Panteki

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0315-0860(87)90016-4

zbMATH Keywords

differentialsBritish mathematicsfluxions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of real functions (26-03)

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• The analytical society (1812-1813): Precursor of the renewal of Cambridge mathematics
• The calculus of operations and the rise of abstract algebra
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