TY - BOOK ID - 5512936 TI - Landmark writings in Western mathematics 1640-1940 AU - Grattan-Guinness, I. AU - Cooke, Roger PY - 2005 SN - 9786610633739 6610633738 9780444508713 0444508716 1280633735 0080457444 9780080457444 9781280633737 PB - Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, DB - UniCat KW - Mathematics KW - Mathématiques KW - History. KW - Histoire KW - History KW - Mathematics. KW - Math KW - Science KW - Mathematics - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5512936 AB - This book contains around 80 articles on major writings in mathematics published between 1640 and 1940. All aspects of mathematics are covered: pure and applied, probability and statistics, foundations and philosophy. Sometimes two writings from the same period and the same subject are taken together. The biography of the author(s) is recorded, and the circumstances of the preparation of the writing are given. When the writing is of some lengths an analytical table of its contents is supplied. The contents of the writing is reviewed, and its impact described, at least for the immediate decades ER -