MacLaurins Physical Dissertations

MacLaurins Physical Dissertations

المؤلف
Ian Tweddle
سنة النشر
2007
الناشر
Springer
لغة الملف
انكليزي
نوع الملف
Book
تصنيف الكتاب
Mathematics and Statistics

The Scottish mathematician Colin MacLaurin (1698-1746) is best known for developing and extending Newton’s work in calculus, geometry and gravitation; his 2-volume work "Treatise of Fluxions" (1742) was the first systematic exposition of Newton’s methods. It is well known that MacLaurin was awarded prizes by the Royal Academy of Sciences, Paris, for his earlier work on the collision of bodies (1724) and the tides (1740); however, the contents of these essays are less familiar – although some of the material is discussed in the Treatise of Fluxions - and the essays themselves often hard to obtain.


الكلمات المفتاحية: Mathematics and Statistics / Colin MacLaurin / Collisions / Figure of the Earth / Tides / Calculus / Geometry / Mathematics / Theorem