Niccolo Guicciardini

Broschiertes Buch

Reading the Principia the Debate on Newton's Mathematical Methods for Natural Philosophy from 1687 to 1736

Beschreibung

Volume on the interpretation of Newton's Principia.

Autor

Niccolò Guicciardini holds degrees in physics and philosophy awarded by the Università degli Studi di Milano. His Ph.D. thesis in the history of mathematics was written under the supervision of Ivor Grattan-Guinness at Middlesex Polytechnic and was published by Cambridge University Press in 1989 as The Development of Newtonian Calculus in Britain, 1700-1800. He is Co-Editor in Chief of Historia Mathematica and is a recipient of the Sarton Medal for 2011-2012, awarded by the University of Ghent, Belgium.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 570g
• ISBN-13: 9780521544030
• ISBN-10: 0521544033
• Artikelnr.: 21999527