Arguments on motivation in the rise and decline of a mathematical theory; the Construction of equations, 1637 - ca. 1750
From MaRDI portal
Publication:800900
DOI10.1007/BF00328124zbMath0552.01005MaRDI QIDQ800900
Publication date: 1984
Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00328124
analytic style; geometrical conception of mathematical entities; polynomial equations in one unknown
Related Items
Geometry and analysis in Euler's integral calculus, What Descartes knew of mathematics in 1628, The ideas of Hermann Grassmann in the context of the mathematical and philosophical tradition since Leibniz, The principle of continuity, Euler and the structure of mathematics, The Algebra of Geometric Impossibility: Descartes and Montucla on the Impossibility of the Duplication of the Cube and the Trisection of the Angle
Cites Work