Isaac Newton on mathematical certainty and method /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, MA :
MIT Press,
c2009.
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| Series: | Transformations
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Newton on mathematical method
- 2. Newton on certainty in 'Optical Lectures'
- 3. Descartes on method and certainty in the 'Géométrie'
- 4. Against Descartes on determinate problems
- 5. Against Descartes on indeterminate problems
- 6. Beyond the Cartesian cannon : the enumeration of cubics
- 7. The method of series
- 8. The analytical method of fluxions
- 9. The synthetic method of fluxions
- 10. The 'Principia'
- 11. Hidden common analysis
- 12. Hidden new analysis
- 13. Geometry and mechanics
- 14. Analysis and synthesis
- 15. The quarrel with Leibniz : a brief overview
- 16. Scribal publication, 1672-1699
- 17. Fluxions in print, 1700-1715
- 18. A brief chronology of Newton's mathematical work.