Название: Analytic Geometry and Calculus, with Vectors
Автор: Ralph Palmer Agnew
Издательство: McGraw-Hilt Book Company, Inc.
Год: 2010
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 753
Для сайта: LitMy
Размер: 11.69 MB
Язык: Английский

There is an element of truth in the old saying that the Euler textbook Introductio in 4nalysin Infinitorum (Lausannae, 1748) was the first great calculus textbook, and that all elementary calculus textbooks published since that time have been copied from Euler or have been copied from books that were copied from Euler. Euler, the greatest mathematician of his day and in many respects the greatest mathematician of all time, held sway when, except where the geometry of Euclid was involved, it was not the fashion to try to base mathematical work upon accurately formulated basic concepts. Problems were the important things, and meaningful formulations of axioms, postulates, definitions, hypotheses, conclusions, and theorems either were not written or played minor roles.