Infinitesimal Calculus

Infinitesimal Calculus
Author: James M. Henle
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2014-01-15
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0486151018

Introducing calculus at the basic level, this text covers hyperreal numbers and hyperreal line, continuous functions, integral and differential calculus, fundamental theorem, infinite sequences and series, infinite polynomials, more. 1979 edition.

The Origins of Infinitesimal Calculus

The Origins of Infinitesimal Calculus
Author: Margaret E. Baron
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2014-05-09
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1483280926

The Origins of Infinitesimal Calculus focuses on the evolution, development, and applications of infinitesimal calculus. The publication first ponders on Greek mathematics, transition to Western Europe, and some center of gravity determinations in the later 16th century. Discussions focus on the growth of kinematics in the West, latitude of forms, influence of Aristotle, axiomatization of Greek mathematics, theory of proportion and means, method of exhaustion, discovery method of Archimedes, and curves, normals, tangents, and curvature. The manuscript then examines infinitesimals and indivisibles in the early 17th century and further advances in France and Italy. Topics include the link between differential and integral processes, concept of tangent, first investigations of the cycloid, and arithmetization of integration methods. The book reviews the infinitesimal methods in England and Low Countries and rectification of arcs. The publication is a vital source of information for historians, mathematicians, and researchers interested in infinitesimal calculus.

A Primer of Infinitesimal Analysis

A Primer of Infinitesimal Analysis
Author: John L. Bell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 7
Release: 2008-04-07
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0521887186

A rigorous, axiomatically formulated presentation of the 'zero-square', or 'nilpotent' infinitesimal.

Cauchy's Calcul Infinitésimal

Cauchy's Calcul Infinitésimal
Author: Dennis M. Cates
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2019-04-03
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3030110362

This book is a complete English translation of Augustin-Louis Cauchy's historic 1823 text (his first devoted to calculus), Résumé des leçons sur le calcul infinitésimal, "Summary of Lectures on the Infinitesimal Calculus," originally written to benefit his École Polytechnique students in Paris. Within this single text, Cauchy succinctly lays out and rigorously develops all of the topics one encounters in an introductory study of the calculus, from his classic definition of the limit to his detailed analysis of the convergence properties of infinite series. In between, the reader will find a full treatment of differential and integral calculus, including the main theorems of calculus and detailed methods of differentiating and integrating a wide variety of functions. Real, single variable calculus is the main focus of the text, but Cauchy spends ample time exploring the extension of his rigorous development to include functions of multiple variables as well as complex functions. This translation maintains the same notation and terminology of Cauchy's original work in the hope of delivering as honest and true a Cauchy experience as possible so that the modern reader can experience his work as it may have been like 200 years ago. This book can be used with advantage today by anyone interested in the history of the calculus and analysis. In addition, it will serve as a particularly valuable supplement to a traditional calculus text for those readers who desire a way to create more texture in a conventional calculus class through the introduction of original historical sources.

Elementary Calculus

Elementary Calculus
Author: H. Jerome Keisler
Publisher: Orange Groove Books
Total Pages: 992
Release: 2009-09-01
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9781616100315

Infinitesimal

Infinitesimal
Author: Amir Alexander
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2014-07-03
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1780745338

On August 10, 1632, five leading Jesuits convened in a sombre Roman palazzo to pass judgment on a simple idea: that a continuous line is composed of distinct and limitlessly tiny parts. The doctrine would become the foundation of calculus, but on that fateful day the judges ruled that it was forbidden. With the stroke of a pen they set off a war for the soul of the modern world. Amir Alexander takes us from the bloody religious strife of the sixteenth century to the battlefields of the English civil war and the fierce confrontations between leading thinkers like Galileo and Hobbes. The legitimacy of popes and kings, as well as our modern beliefs in human liberty and progressive science, hung in the balance; the answer hinged on the infinitesimal. Pulsing with drama and excitement, Infinitesimal will forever change the way you look at a simple line.