The Arithmetic of Infinitesimals

by John Wallis

Book Overview

The book is the first English translation of John Wallis's Arithmetica Infinitorum (1656), a key text on the seventeenth-century development of the calculus. Accompanied with annotations and an introductory essay, the translation makes Wallis's work fully available for the first time to modern readers. It shows how Wallis drew on some of the most important new ideas from the preceding twenty years, and took them forward to lay the foundations on...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441919228
• ISBN13: 9781441919229
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"