Was Newton's Calculus a Dead End? The Continental Influence of Maclaurin's Treatise of Fluxions
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DOI10.2307/2974733zbMATH Open0885.01010OpenAlexW4233431193WikidataQ55896231 ScholiaQ55896231MaRDI QIDQ4340641FDOQ4340641
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
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