Mathematics goes ballistic: Benjamin Robins, Leonhard Euler, and the mathematical education of military engineers

DOI10.1080/17498430902820887zbMath1173.01005OpenAlexW2038256055WikidataQ58510474 ScholiaQ58510474MaRDI QIDQ3391808

Janet Heine Barnett

Publication date: 13 August 2009

Published in: BSHM Bulletin: Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/17498430902820887

zbMATH Keywords

education of military engineershistory of ballistics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50)

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