Thomas Harriot on continuous compounding

DOI10.1080/17498430.2013.721331MaRDI QIDQ2879447zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Norman L. Biggs

Publication date 1 September 2014

Published in BSHM Bulletin (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/17498430.2013.721331

zbMATH Keywords

infinite seriesseventeenth centuryThomas Harriotcompounding of interest

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) Function-theoretic methods (including power series methods and semicontinuous methods) for summability (40C15)

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