A Source Book in Mathematics

A Source Book in MathematicsThis work presents, in English translation, the great discoveries in mathematics from the Renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century. You are able to read the writings of Newton, Leibniz, Pascal, Riemann, Bernoulli, and others, exactly as the world saw them for the first time. Succinct selections from 125 different treatises and articles, most of them unavailable elsewhere in English, offer a vivid, firsthand story of the growth of mathematics.

accessible introduction to one of the most fruitful and interesting intellectual systems of our time

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the statistical mechanical aspects of light scattering theory

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The text is complemented by a select bibliography and a chronological table of noteworthy thinkers and writers

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A classic introduction to mathematical logic from the perspective of category theory