The \textit{De linearum} by MacLaurin: between Newton and Poncelet

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Authors Olivier Bruneau

Publication date 9 August 2011

Full work available at URL http://smf4.emath.fr/en/Publications/RevueHistoireMath/17/html/smf_rhm_17_9-39.php

zbMATH Keywords

ChaslesgeometryMaclaurinNewtonPoncelet

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of geometry (51-03)

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• Some results on conic sections in the correspondence between Colin MacLaurin and Robert Simson
• Jan de Witt's `Elementa curvarum linearum--liber primus'. Text translation, introduction, and commentary by Albert W. Grootendorst. With the help of Miente Bakker
• Space and time in Maclaurin: the case of the shape of the Earth
• Was Newton's Calculus a dead end? The continental influence of Maclaurin's `Treatise of fluxions'
• Note on the Braikenridge-Maclaurin theorem
• Colin Maclaurin (1698–1746): a Newtonian between theory and practice
• Linear problems in the \textit{Compendy de la praticque des nombres} by Barthélemy and Mathieu Préhoude (1471): a new approach based on retarded sources of \textit{Liber abbaci} by Leonardo of Pisa
• Poncelet's theory of curves and geometric surfaces
• Mathematics, history of mathematics and Poncelet: the context of the Ecole Polytechnique
• MacLaurin's physical dissertations

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