Was Newton's Calculus a Dead End? The Continental Influence of Maclaurin's Treatise of Fluxions

DOI10.2307/2974733MaRDI QIDQ4340641zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Judith V. Grabiner

Publication date 20 April 1998

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://scholarship.claremont.edu/pitzer_fac_pub/121

zbMATH Keywords

Maclaurinfluxionstreatise on fluxions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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