UID:
almafu_9959238417102883
Format:
1 online resource (286 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-19-773131-7
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1-280-44366-9
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0-19-535915-1
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9786610443666
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1-4294-1545-2
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Content:
The 17th century saw a dramatic development in mathematical theory and practice. This is an account of the foundational issues raised in the relationship between mathematical advances of the period and the philosophy of mathematics.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 1996.
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Contents; 1. Philosophy of Mathematics and Mathematical Practice in the Early Seventeenth Century; 2. Cavalieri's Geometry of Indivisibles and Guldin's Centers of Gravity; 3. Descartes' Géométrie; 4. The Problem of Continuity; 5. Paradoxes of the Infinite; 6. Leibniz's Differential Calculus and Its Opponents; Appendix: Giuseppe Biancani's De Mathematicarum Natura; Notes; References; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-513244-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-508463-2
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780195084634.001.0001
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