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Convolutions in French Mathematics, 1800–1840

From the Calculus and Mechanics to Mathematical Analysis and Mathematical Physics

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  • © 1990

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Authors:
  1. Ivor Grattan-Guinness

    1. Middlesex Polytechnic, Enfield Middesex, England

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Part of the book series: Science Networks. Historical Studies (SNHS, volume 4)

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-30
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  2. The Settings

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
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    2. Propaedeutic

      • Ivor Grattan-Guinness
      Pages 31-75

    3. Institutions and individuals around the 1800s

      • Ivor Grattan-Guinness
      Pages 76-125

    4. The 18th-century heritage: the calculus around 1800

      • Ivor Grattan-Guinness
      Pages 126-184

    5. The Lagrangian tradition in the calculus, 1800–1815

      • Ivor Grattan-Guinness
      Pages 185-268

    6. The 18th-century heritage: mechanics around 1800

      • Ivor Grattan-Guinness
      Pages 269-354

    7. Progress in mechanics, 1800–1815

      • Ivor Grattan-Guinness
      Pages 355-435

    8. Laplace’s mathematicised molecular physics, 1804–1816

      • Ivor Grattan-Guinness
      Pages 436-517

    9. Aspects of engineering mathematics, 1800–1816

      • Ivor Grattan-Guinness
      Pages 518-572

  3. The Turns

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 582-582
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    2. The entry of Fourier: heat theory and Fourier analysis, 1800–1816

      • Ivor Grattan-Guinness
      Pages 583-632

    3. The entry of Cauchy: complex variables and differential equations, 1810–1822

      • Ivor Grattan-Guinness
      Pages 633-695

    4. Cauchy’s inauguration of mathematical analysis, 1820–1827

      • Ivor Grattan-Guinness
      Pages 696-803

    5. The consolidation of heat theory, 1816–1825

      • Ivor Grattan-Guinness
      Pages 804-851

    6. The entry of Fresnel: physical optics, 1815–1824

      • Ivor Grattan-Guinness
      Pages 852-915

    7. The entry of physicist Ampère: electricity and magnetism, especially their connections, 1820–1827

      • Ivor Grattan-Guinness
      Pages 916-967

    8. The entry of Navier and the triumph of Cauchy: elasticity theory, 1819–1830

      • Ivor Grattan-Guinness
      Pages 968-1045

    9. Work for the workers: engineering mechanics and its instruction, 1800–1830

      • Ivor Grattan-Guinness
      Pages 1046-1121

    10. Towards the 1830s: the new generation

      • Ivor Grattan-Guinness
      Pages 1122-1220
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  • Middlesex Polytechnic, Enfield Middesex, England

    Ivor Grattan-Guinness

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