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The origins of Cauchy's rigorous calculus
- J. Grabiner
- Mathematics
- 23 April 1981
This book explores the background of a major intellectual revolution: the rigorous reinterpretation of the calculus undertaken by Augustin-Louis Cauchy and his contemporaries in the first part of the… Expand
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Effects of the Scopes Trial
- J. Grabiner, P. D. Miller
- Science
- 6 September 1974
Readers may choose their own villain in the story we have told. Like us, some will find the greatest culpability in the scientific community itself, for the large-scale failure to pay attention to… Expand
Was Newton’s Calculus a Dead End? The Continental Influence of Maclaurin’s Treatise of Fluxions
- J. Grabiner
- Mathematics
- 1 May 1997
(1997). Was Newton's Calculus a Dead End? The Continental Influence of Maclaurin's Treatise of Fluxions. The American Mathematical Monthly: Vol. 104, No. 5, pp. 393-410.
Who Gave You the Epsilon? Cauchy and the Origins of Rigorous Calculus
- J. Grabiner
- Mathematics
- 1 March 1983
Perhaps this exchange will remind us that the rigorous basis for the calculus is not at all intuitive—in fact, quite the contrary. The calculus is a subject dealing with speeds and distances, with… Expand
The Changing Concept of Change: The Derivative from Fermat to Weierstrass
- J. Grabiner
- Mathematics
- 1 September 1983
First the derivative was used, then discovered, explored and developed, and only then, defined.
A Historian Looks Back: The Calculus as Algebra and Selected Writings
- J. Grabiner
- Mathematics
- 31 December 2010
Introduction Part I. The Calculus as Algebra: Introduction 1. The development of Lagrange's ideas on the calculus: 1754-1797 2. The algebraic background of the theory of analytic functions 3. The… Expand
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A Mathematician among the Molasses Barrels: Maclaurin's Unpublished Memoir on Volumes
- J. Grabiner
- Mathematics, Philosophy
- 1 June 1996
Suppose we are given a solid of revolution generated by a conic section. Slice out a frustum of the solid [ 14 , diagrams pp. 77, 80]. Then, construct a cylinder, with the same height as the frustum,… Expand
The Centrality of Mathematics in the History of Western Thought.
- J. Grabiner
- Mathematics
- 1 October 1988
context of mathematics from the hardware store with the rest of the tools and bring it back to the university. To do this, I will discuss some major developments in the history of ideas in which… Expand
Why Proof? A Historian’s Perspective
- J. Grabiner
- Philosophy
- 2011
The history of mathematics provides evidence that proofs let mathematicians distinguish between true results and merely plausible ones; that the careful formulation of arguments allows them to see… Expand