Science News, February 26th, 2005
THE CALCULUS GALLERY: Masterpieces from Newton to Lebesgue WILLIAM DUNHAM
Just as students of music study the symphonies of Beethoven and Bach, people learning calculus should review the proofs, theorems, and definitions composed by the field's masters, Dunham proposes. Beginning with the 17th-century originators of calculus, Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, and continuing to Henri Lebesgue some 200 years later, the author considers the people who did the most ...
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