Designed as an integrated survey of the development of analytic geometry, this study presents the concepts and contributions from before the Alexandrian Age through the eras of the great French mathematicians Fermat and Descartes, and on through Newton and Euler to the "Golden Age," from 1789 to 1850. 1956 edition. Analytical bibliography. Index.
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Boyer's landmark study about how mathematical ideas are transmitted from one practitioner to another is here reprinted from the Yeshiva University Press edition of 1956. Writing for undergraduate students and general readers interested in mathematics, Boyer starts with the first scribbles on papyrus and moves from contributor to contributor through
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