God, king, and geometry: revisiting the introduction to Cauchy's \textit{Cours d'analyse}

DOI10.1016/J.HM.2010.12.001MaRDI QIDQ549913zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Michael J. Barany

Publication date 19 July 2011

Published in Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2010.12.001

zbMATH Keywords

Augustin-Louis CauchyCours d'analysehistory of analysis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55)

Review text

Cauchy's textbook of 1821 included a seven-page introduction. The present paper interprets that extract in terms of religion and (governmental, institutional, and intellectual) politics.

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