Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- Contents
- Ancient Mathematics
- Medieval and Renaissance Mathematics
- The Seventeenth Century
- The Eighteenth Century
- Foreword
- Brook Taylor and the Mathematical Theory of Linear Perspective
- Was Newton's Calculus a Dead End? The Continental Influence of Maclaurin's Treatise of Fluxions
- Discussion of Fluxions: from Berkeley to Woodhouse
- The Bernoullis and the Harmonic Series
- Leonhard Euler 1707–1783
- The Number e
- Euler's Vision of a General Partial Differential Calculus for a Generalized Kind of Function
- Euler and the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra
- Euler and Differentials
- Euler and Quadratic Reciprocity
- Afterword
- Index
- About the Editors
Euler and Quadratic Reciprocity
from The Eighteenth Century
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- Contents
- Ancient Mathematics
- Medieval and Renaissance Mathematics
- The Seventeenth Century
- The Eighteenth Century
- Foreword
- Brook Taylor and the Mathematical Theory of Linear Perspective
- Was Newton's Calculus a Dead End? The Continental Influence of Maclaurin's Treatise of Fluxions
- Discussion of Fluxions: from Berkeley to Woodhouse
- The Bernoullis and the Harmonic Series
- Leonhard Euler 1707–1783
- The Number e
- Euler's Vision of a General Partial Differential Calculus for a Generalized Kind of Function
- Euler and the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra
- Euler and Differentials
- Euler and Quadratic Reciprocity
- Afterword
- Index
- About the Editors
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- Sherlock Holmes in BabylonAnd Other Tales of Mathematical History, pp. 375 - 382Publisher: Mathematical Association of AmericaPrint publication year: 2003