Ian Tweddle

MacLaurin's Physical Dissertations (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents important works by the Scottish mathematician Colin MacLaurin (1698-1746), translated in English for the first time. It includes three of the mathematician's less known and often hard to obtain works. A general introduction puts the works in context and gives an outline of MacLaurin's career. Each translation is also accompanied by an introduction and analyzed both in modern terms and from a historical point of view.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer London
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781846287763
• Artikelnr.: 37362602

Autorenporträt

Ian Tweddle is a proven Springer author, having already contributed two books to the Sources and Studies series: Simon on Porisms (306-5, published 2000), and Methodus Differentialis (723-0, published 2003). Of these three books, this one will have the widest appeal.

Inhaltsangabe

General Introduction.- Part I: MacLaurin on Gravity.- Part II: MacLaurin on Collisions.- Part III: MacLaurin on the Tides.- References.- Index.

Rezensionen

From the reviews: "Anyone seriously interested in Colin Maclaurin (1698-1746) or in eighteenth-century mathematical physics will welcome this book. ... the assiduous reader will be rewarded in many ways, both by working through Tweddle's introductions, notes, and appendices, and by reading Maclaurin's own words in Tweddle's clear and accurate translations. I find the book refreshing ... we have the result of years of profound study and deliberation, careful textual analysis, and sound understanding and explanation of the relevant mathematics and physics." (Judith V. Grabiner, MathDL, January, 2007)