Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 British mathematics 1800–30
- 3 The Analytical Society
- 4 The calculus of functions
- 5 ‘The Philosophy of Analysis’
- 6 Miscellaneous papers in analysis, probability and geometry
- 7 Notation
- 8 Babbage and his computers
- 9 Conclusion
- Appendix: mathematical books and papers by Charles Babbage
- Index
Appendix: mathematical books and papers by Charles Babbage
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 British mathematics 1800–30
- 3 The Analytical Society
- 4 The calculus of functions
- 5 ‘The Philosophy of Analysis’
- 6 Miscellaneous papers in analysis, probability and geometry
- 7 Notation
- 8 Babbage and his computers
- 9 Conclusion
- Appendix: mathematical books and papers by Charles Babbage
- Index
Summary
Published books
Memoirs of the Analytical Society, Cambridge, 1813. (Written with J. F. W. Herschel.)
Translation of S. F. Lacroix's ‘Sur le Calcul Différentiel et Intégral’, Cambridge, 1816. (Written with J. F. W. Herschel and G. Peacock.)
Examples of the Solutions of Functional Equations, Cambridge, 1820.
Unpublished books
‘The History of the Origin and Progress of the Calculus of Functions during the years 1809, 1810 … 1817’ (Museum of the History of Science, Oxford).
‘The Philosophy of Analysis’, c. 1821 (British Museum).
Papers
‘An essay towards the calculus of functions, Part I’, Philosophical Transactions, 1815.
‘An essay towards the calculus of functions, Part II’, Philosophical Transactions, 1816.
‘Demonstration of some of Dr. Matthew Stewart's general theorems, to which is added an account of some new properties of the circle’, Journal of Sciences and the Arts, 1817.
‘Observations on the analogy which subsists between the calculus of functions and other branches of analysis’, Philosophical Transactions, 1817.
Solutions of some problems by means of the calculus of functions', Journal of Science and the Arts, London, 1817.
‘Note respecting elimination’, Journal of Science and the Arts, London, 1817.
‘An account of Euler's method of solving a problem relating to the Knight's move at chess’, Journal of Science and the Arts, 1817.
‘On some new methods of investigating the sums of several classes of infinite series’, Philosophical Transactions, 1819.
‘Demonstration of a theorem relating to prime numbers.’ Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, 1819.
‘Observations on the notation employed in the calculus of functions’, Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 1821.
[…]
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Mathematical Work of Charles Babbage , pp. 230 - 231Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1978