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The historical development of the calculus

My goal in writing this book was to present an account of this development that is accessible, not solely to students of the history of mathematics, but to the wider mathematical community for which my exposition is more specifically intended, including those who study, teach, and use calculus.
Print Book, English, ©1979
Springer-Verlag, New York, ©1979
xii, 351 p. : il. ; 23 cm
9780387943138, 9780387904368, 9783540904366, 0387943137, 0387904360, 3540904360
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1. Area Number and Limit Concepts in Antiquity; 2. Archimedes; 3. Twilight, Darkness and Dawn; 4. Early Indivisibles and Infinitesimal Techniques; 5. Early Tangent Constructions; 6. Napier's Wonderful Logarithms; 7. The Arithmetic of the Infinite; 8. The Calculus According to Newton; 9. The Calculus According to Leibniz; 10. The Age of Euler; 11. The Calculus According to Cauchy, Riemann and Weierstrass; 12. Postscript: The Twentieth Century; Index