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Title
The Rise and Development of the Theory of Series up to the Early 1820s ([Ebook]) / by Giovanni Ferraro.
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Ferraro, Giovanni. , 1957-
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New York, NY : Springer , 2008.
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405 pages : online resource.
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Sources and studies in the history of mathematics and physical sciences
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9780387734682
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The theory of series in the 17th and 18th centuries poses several interesting problems to historians. Most of the results derived from this time were derived using methods which would be found unacceptable today, and as a result, when one looks back to the theory of series prior to Cauchy without reconstructing internal motivations and the conceptual background, it appears as a corpus of manipulative techniques lacking in rigor whose results seem to be the puzzling fruit of the mind of a magician or diviner rather than the penetrating and complex work of great mathematicians. This monograph not only describes the entire complex of 17th and 18th century procedures and results concerning series, but it also reconstructs the implicit and explicit principles upon which they are based, draws attention to the underlying philosophy, highlights competing approaches, and investigates the mathematical context where the theory originated. The aim here is to improve the understanding of the framework of 17th and 18th century mathematics and avoid trivializing the complexity of historical development by bringing it into line with modern concepts and views and by tacitly assuming that certain results belong, in some sense, to a unified theory that has come down to us today. Giovanni Ferraro is Professor of Mathematics and History of Mathematics at University of Molise.:
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Preface -- Part I: From the beginnings of the seventeenth century to about 1720: convergence and formal manipulation -- Series before the rise of the calculus -- Geometrical quantities and series in Leibniz -- The Bernoulli series and Leibniz's analogy -- Newton's method of series -- Jacob Bernoulli's treatise on series -- The Taylor series -- Quantities and their representations -- The formal-quantitative theory of series -- The first appearance of divergent series -- Part II: From 1720s to 1760s: The development of a more formal conception -- De Moivre's recurrent seires and Bernoulli's method -- Acceleration of series and Stirling's series -- Maclaurin's contribution -- The young Euler between innovation and tradition -- Euler's derivation of the Euler-Maclaurin summation formula -- On the sum of an asymptotic series -- Infinite products and continued fractions -- Series and number theory -- Anaysis after the 1740s -- The formal concept of series -- Part III: The theory of series after 1760: Successes and problems of the triumphant formalism -- Lagrange inversion theorem -- Towards the calculus of operations -- Laplace's calculus of generating functions -- The problem of analytical representation of nonelementary quantities -- Inexplicable functions -- Integration and functions -- Series and differential equations -- Trigonometric series -- Further developments of the formal theory of series -- Attemps to introduce new transcendental functions -- D'Alembert and Lagrange and the inequality technique -- Part IV: The decline of formal theory of series -- Fourier and Fourier series -- Gauss and the hypergeometric series -- Cauchy's rejections of the eighteenth-century theory of series.
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Analysis
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Global analysis (Mathematics)
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History of mathematics
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Mathematics
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Mathematics - History
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Real Functions
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Sequences (Mathematics)
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Sequences, Series, Summability
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