{"product_id":"the-mathematical-papers-of-isaac-newton-volume-7-1691-1695-paperback-9780521045896","title":"The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton: Volume 7, 1691–1695 (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521045896","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton: Volume 7, 1691–1695\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNewton's mathematical researches during the last five years of his stay in Cambridge before leaving in April 1696.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eIsaac Newton (Author), D. T. Whiteside (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521045896, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 3 January 2008\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e764 pages\u003cbr\u003e28 x 21 x 4 cm, 1.683 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eNewton's mathematical researches during the last five years of his stay in Cambridge before leaving in April 1696 to take up his duties at the Mint in London have three main centres of interest: methods of fluxions and series, classical pure geometry, and Cartesian analytical geometry. Part 1 reproduces Newton's advances at this time in further extending the techniques of his combined calculus of fluxions and fluent, and of expansion into infinite series. Part 2 gives publication of Newton's lengthy excursions in the early 1690s into the modes of geometrical analysis used by the 'ancient' geometers, based – by way of Commandino's Latin translation – on the account of this little understood field of the Greek 'topos analuomenos' which was given by Pappus in the prolegomenon to the seventh book of his Mathematical Collection. Part 3 gives prominence to the final text of the Enumeratio Linearum Tertii Ordinis which Newton put together in June 1695.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. The First Tract 'De Quadratura Curvarum': Part II. Researches in Pure Geometry and Quadrature of Curves: 1. Restoring the Greeks' Geometrical Method\u003cbr\u003e 2. Essays at a Multipartite 'Geometria'\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Final 'Geometriæ Libri Duo'\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Cartesian Analysis of Higher Plane Curves and Finite-Difference Approximations: 1. Improved Enumeration of the Cubic's Species\u003cbr\u003e 2. Miscellaneous Analytical Investigations of Cubic and Quartic Curves\u003cbr\u003e 3. Interpolation and Approximate Quadrature by Curve-Fitting\u003cbr\u003e Index of Names\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of science [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of science\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20science%20%5BPDX%5D%22\"\u003ePDX\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46006263185688,"sku":"9780521045896","price":43.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521045896i_b9568da7-8838-4a4a-b932-13724a2fac90.jpg?v=1694968667","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-mathematical-papers-of-isaac-newton-volume-7-1691-1695-paperback-9780521045896","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}