The Rise and Development of the Theory of Series up to the Early 1820s
Publication year: 2008
ISBN: 978-0-387-73468-2
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The theory of series in the 17th and 18th centuries poses several interesting problems to historians. Most of the results derived from this time were derived using methods which would be found unacceptable today, and as a result, when one looks back to the theory of series prior to Cauchy without reconstructing internal motivations and the conceptual background, it appears as a corpus of manipulative techniques lacking in rigor whose results seem to be the puzzling fruit of the mind of a magician or diviner rather than the penetrating and complex work of great mathematicians.
Subject: Mathematics and Statistics, Fourier series, Taylor series, calculus, differential equation, number theory
