History of Mathematics - The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton, Volume II: 1667–1670. Ed. by D. T. Whiteside, with the assistance in publication of M. A. Hoskin. London: Cambridge University Press. 1968. Pp. xxii + 520. £10 10s.

1969 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-290
Author(s):  
J. D. North
Keyword(s):  
History Of Mathematics ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Isaac Newton ◽  
History Of

Newton and the Origin of Civilization

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jed Z. Buchwald ◽  
Mordechai Feingold
Keyword(s):  
Good Reason ◽  
History Of Mathematics ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
Isaac Newton ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ancient Civilizations ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
One Year ◽  
Radical Ideas

Isaac Newton’s Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended, published in 1728, one year after the great man’s death, unleashed a storm of controversy. And for good reason. The book presents a drastically revised timeline for ancient civilizations, contracting Greek history by five hundred years and Egypt’s by a millennium. This book tells the story of how one of the most celebrated figures in the history of mathematics, optics, and mechanics came to apply his unique ways of thinking to problems of history, theology, and mythology, and of how his radical ideas produced an uproar that reverberated in Europe’s learned circles throughout the eighteenth century and beyond. The book reveals the manner in which Newton strove for nearly half a century to rectify universal history by reading ancient texts through the lens of astronomy, and to create a tight theoretical system for interpreting the evolution of civilization on the basis of population dynamics. It was during Newton’s earliest years at Cambridge that he developed the core of his singular method for generating and working with trustworthy knowledge, which he applied to his study of the past with the same rigor he brought to his work in physics and mathematics. Drawing extensively on Newton’s unpublished papers and a host of other primary sources, the book reconciles Isaac Newton the rational scientist with Newton the natural philosopher, alchemist, theologian, and chronologist of ancient history.

Short notices - At home with your calculator, by Andrew Rothery. Pp 51. 95p. 1980. ISBN 0 245 53526 8 (Harrap) - The calculator game book for kids of all ages, by Arlene Hartman. Pp 190. $1·50. 1977. ISBN 0 45107399 1 (Signet) - Cross Maths 1 and 2, by H. D. Saxton. 98p and £1·10. 1979 and 1980. ISBN 0 7131 0397 3/0459 7 (Edward Arnold) - Mathematical statistical mechanics, by Colin J. Thompson. Pp 278. £3·35. 1979. ISBN 0 691 08220 0 (Princeton University Press) - The Penguin book of mathematical and statistical tables, by R. D. Nelson. Pp 64. 95p. 1980. ISBN 0 14 051097 4 (Penguin) - Essentials of mathematics (4th edition), by Russell V. Person. Pp 865. £12. 1980. ISBN 0 471 05184 5 (Wiley) - Basic algebra, by Marvin Schlichting. Pp 388. £11·20. 1980. ISBN 0 442 25765 1 (Van Nostrand) - Notes on mathematics in primary schools, bymembers of the Association of Teachers of Mathematics. Pp 340. £3·50. Reissued 1979. ISBN 0 900095 06 7 (Association of Teachers of Mathematics) - Numerical solution of differential equations, byM. K. Jain. Pp 443. £7·50. 1979. ISBN 0 85226 427 5 (Wiley Eastern) - Algebra and trigonometry refresher for calculus students, by Loren C. Larsen. Pp 192. £3·10. 1979. ISBN 0 7167 1110 9 (Freeman) - Mathematics for decisions, by Helen B. Siner and others. Pp 502. £11·95. 1979. ISBN 0 442 27651 6 (Van Nostrand Reinhold) - A history of mathematics (3rd edition), byFlorian Cajori. Pp 524. $18·50. 1980. ISBN 0 8284 0303 1 (Chelsea) - Unified mathematics, byJ. B. Morgan and K. S. Snell. Book 4. Pp 346. £1·80. 1977. ISBN 0 521 21298 7 (Cambridge University Press) - House maths, byN. S. Armstrong and others Pupils’ book Teacher’s guide. Pp 32, 11. 60 p, 90 p. 1976. ISBN 0 216 90211 8/90212 6 (Blackie)

1980 ◽  
Vol 64 (430) ◽  
pp. 304-306
Keyword(s):  
Differential Equations ◽  
Statistical Mechanics ◽  
Numerical Solution ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
History Of Mathematics ◽  
Penguin Book ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Calculus Students ◽  
History Of

Analysis of Ideas Changing in the History of Mathematical Analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 505-510
Author(s):  
Ming-Xing Hu ◽  
De-Peng Kong
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Analysis ◽  
History Of Mathematics ◽  
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz ◽  
Central Field ◽  
Continuous Change ◽  
German Mathematician ◽  
Sir Isaac Newton ◽  
Isaac Newton ◽  
History Of ◽  
Modern Analysis

Analysis is a branch of mathematics that deals with continuous change and with certain general types of processes that have emerged from the study of continuous change, such as limits, differentiation, and integration. In the history of mathematics, analysis is the first subject became epidemic, the development of analysis originated from the British mathematician and physicist, the Sir Isaac Newton, and the German mathematician, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, who developed the theory of Calculus, with hundred-years developing, the modern analysis is now very ample and has widely applications, it has grown into an enormous and central field of mathematical research, with applications throughout the sciences and in areas such as finance, economics, and sociology. In this paper, we investigated in some detail with the changing of the ideas in mathematical analysis. By numerating historical facts and the mathematical ideas, we concluded the result that the ideas changing is because of the changing of the studying objects, the conclusion are studied detailly in the paper.

“Did Hume Really Follow Berkeley”

Philosophy ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 44 (169) ◽  
pp. 238-242
Author(s):  
Grapham P. Conroy
Keyword(s):  
History Of Mathematics ◽  
George Berkeley ◽  
Sir Isaac Newton ◽  
Isaac Newton ◽  
History Of

The Bishop of Cloyne, George Berkeley, was the sort of philosopher who, although most genial himself, was quite apt to embroil opponents and critics of his time and of our own in long-lasting and sometimes unresolved controversies. In attacking the “infidel mathematicians”, the “minute philosophers” among the scientists, Berkeley initiated a controversy on behalf of religion by taking to task the theory of fluxions held by Sir Isaac Newton, his friends, and followers which, beginning with Berkeley's Analyst and replies to it by Jurin and Walton, was continued on over one hundred years by subsequent writers. Florian Cajori in his History of Mathematics, commenting on the affair has written:‘We must not neglect to express our appreciation of the fact that Berkeley withdrew from the controversy after he had said all that he had to say on his subject. Some of the debates that came later were almost interminable, because the participants continued writing even after they had nothing more to say.’

Newton’s role in the history of Mathematics*

1989 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-92
Keyword(s):  
Trinity College ◽  
History Of Mathematics ◽  
Mathematical Ability ◽  
Isaac Newton ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of

Isaac Newton, who was born on Christmas Day 1642 and died in 1727, was a self-taught mathematician who did not display any outstanding mathematical ability until towards the end of his under graduate days. In his youth in Lincolnshire he showed great interest in mechanical contrivances and he liked making sundials. Even in his schooldays he appears to have been a loner, but he once thrashed another boy who had provoked him. In 1659, when he was nearly 17, his mother (his father having died before he was born) withdrew him from King’s School, Grantham, which he had attended for several years. She intended to make him farm the family estate at Woolsthorpe, but he was completely uninterested in farming. Eventually, in June 1661, he went to Trinity College, Cambridge, as a ‘subsizar’, a lowly form of undergraduate who performed certain menial tasks (the corresponding Oxford term was ‘servitor’). Since Newton came from the gentry, this experience must have been humiliating and may well have reinforced his natural propensity to isolation.

Bibliography of recent books and articles dealing with the history of the Royal Society

1959 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 196-198
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Charles Darwin ◽  
Natural Philosophy ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
American Philosophical Society ◽  
Experimental Science ◽  
Robert Boyle ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Isaac Newton ◽  
History Of

Each number of Notes and Records contains a short bibliography of books and articles dealing with the history of the Royal Sociey or its Fellows which have appeared since the publication of the last number. If Fellows would be good enough to draw the Editor’s attention to omissions these would be added to the list in the next issue. B ooks Auber, F. Daniel Bernoulli (1700-1782) als Physiologe und Statistiker. Basle / Stuttgart, 1959. 11 Sw. fr. Bibby, C. T. H. Huxley . Watts, 1959. 25s. Boas, Maria. Robert Boyle and seventeenth-century Chemistry . Cambridge, 1958. 30s. Bell, P. R., Challinor, J., Haldane, J. B. S., and others. Darwin´s Biological Work . Cambridge University Press, 1959. 40s. Barnet, S. A., ed. A Century of Darwin . Heinemann, 1958. 30s. Cohen, B. Franklin and Newton. An Inquiry into speculative Newtonian experimental science and Franklin´s work in electricity as an example thereof. Philadelphia (The American Philosophical Society), 1956. $6.00. Cohen, B., and Schofield, R. E., ed. Isaac Newton´s Papers and Letters in Natural Philosophy . C.U.P., 1958. 70s. Darlington, C. D. Darwin’s place in history . Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1959. 9s. 6d. Darwin, C. (Peckham, M., ed.). The Origin of Species. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1959. 120s. Darwin, F., ed. The autobiography oj Charles Darwin and selected letters. New York, Dover Publications Inc., 1958. $1.65.

PETER HARMAN and SIMON MITTON (eds.), Cambridge Scientific Minds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. viii+343. ISBN 0-521-78612-6. £14.95 (paperback). DAVID MILLAR, IAN MILLAR, JOHN MILLAR and MARGARET MILLAR, The Cambridge Dictionary of Scientists. Second edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xii+428. ISBN 0-521-00062-9. £14.95, $20.00 (paperback).

2004 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 466-467
Author(s):  
MARIA YAMALIDOU
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Discovery ◽  
History Of Mathematics ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Crystal Palace ◽  
Medieval Germany ◽  
History Of ◽  
Jill Ker Conway ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Great Exhibition

Peter Harman and Simon Mitton (eds.), Cambridge Scientific Minds and David Millar, Ian Millar, John Millar and Margaret Millar, The Cambridge Dictionary of Scientists. By Maria Yamalidou 466Maria Michela Sassi, The Science of Man in Ancient Greece. By Laurence M. V. Totelin 467H. L. L. Busard, Johannes de Tinemue's Redaction of Euclid's Elements, the So-called Adelard III Version. Volume I: Introduction, Sigla and Descriptions of the Manuscripts, Editorial Remarks, Euclides, Elementa. Volume II: Conspectus Siglorum, Apparatus Criticus, Addenda. By Jackie Stedall 468Gerhard W. Kramer, The Firework Book: Gunpowder in Medieval Germany. By Simon Werrett 469Robert Crocker (ed.), Religion, Reason and Nature in Early Modern Europe. By Scott Mandelbrote 470Rienk Vermij, The Calvinist Copernicans: The Reception of the New Astronomy in the Dutch Republic, 1575–1750. By Owen Gingerich 471Rina Knoeff, Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738): Calvinist Chemist and Physician. By Georgette Ironside 472J. Christiaan Boudri, What was Mechanical about Mechanics: The Concept of Force between Metaphysics and Mechanics from Newton to Lagrange. By Niccolò Guicciardini 473Ken Alder, The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey that Transformed the World. By Graeme Gooday 474Berit Pedersen (ed.), A Guide to the Archives of the Royal Entomological Society. By J. F. M. Clark 476Richard Yeo, Science in the Public Sphere: Natural Knowledge in British Culture 1800–1860. By Leigh D. Bregman 477Louise Purbrick (ed.), The Great Exhibition of 1851: New Interdisciplinary Essays. By Nick Fisher 478Hermione Hobhouse, The Crystal Palace and the Great Exhibition: Art, Science and Productive Industry. A History of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851. By Sophie Forgan 479Michael Worboys, Spreading Germs: Disease Theories and Medical Practice in Britain, 1865–1900. By Kenneth F. Kiple 480Greta Jones, ‘Captain of All these Men of Death’: The History of Tuberculosis in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Ireland. By Juliana Adelman 481Christopher Herbert, Victorian Relativity: Radical Thought and Scientific Discovery. By Hazel Hutchison 482Paul Ziche (ed.), Monismus um 1900: Wissenschaftskultur und Weltanschauung. By Peter Zigman 484Maggie Mort, Building the Trident Network: A Study of the Enrollment of People, Knowledge, and Machines. By Sean Johnston 485A. M. Moulin and A. Cambrosio (eds.), Singular Selves: Historical Issues and Contemporary Debates in Immunology/Dialogues entre soi: Questions historiques et débats contemporains en immunologie. By Pauline M. H. Mazumdar 486Ioan James, Remarkable Mathematicians: From Euler to von Neutmann. By Claire Jones 487Joseph W. Dauben and Christoph J. Scriba (eds.), Writing the History of Mathematics: Its Historical Development. By Adrian Rice 488Jill Ker Conway, Kenneth Keniston and Leo Marx (eds.), Earth, Air, Fire, Water: Humanistic Studies of the Environment. By Leigh Clayton 490Steven Weinberg, Facing Up: Science and Its Cultural Adversaries. By Steven French 491

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