Calculus and analysis in early 19th-century Britain: The work of William Wallace

DOI10.1006/hmat.1999.2250zbMath0937.01005OpenAlexW1971393891MaRDI QIDQ1818240

Alex D. D. Craik

Publication date: 13 June 2000

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1006/hmat.1999.2250

zbMATH Keywords

differential calculusencyclopediasdoctrine of limitsreform billrivalries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55)

Related Items (8)

William Wallace's chorograph (1839): a rare mathematical instrument ⋮ Polylogarithms, functional equations and more: the elusive essays of William Spence (1777-1815) ⋮ The logarithmic tables of Edward Sang and his daughters ⋮ The Cambridge Mathematical Journal and its descendants: the linchpin of a research community in the early and mid-Victorian age ⋮ Contraband mathematics: a documentary review of the resources available to George Green at the Nottingham Subscription Library 1823--1828 ⋮ Some unknown documents associated with William Wallace (1768–1843) ⋮ Mary Somerville's early contributions to the circulation of differential calculus ⋮ Geometry versus analysis in early 19th-century Scotland: John Leslie, William Wallace, and Thomas Carlyle

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• The analytical society (1812-1813): Precursor of the renewal of Cambridge mathematics
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