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- Provides the first comprehensive and exhaustive study of the subject
- Approaches an entirely new approach to the subject
- Helps to better understand the link between 18th and 19th-century mathematics
Part of the book series: Frontiers in the History of Science (FRHIS)
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About this book
This text presents the ideas of a particular group of mathematicians of the late 18th century known as “the German combinatorial school” and its influence. The book tackles several questions concerning the emergence and historical development of the German combinatorial analysis, which was the unfinished scientific research project of that group of mathematicians. The historical survey covers the three main episodes in the evolution of that research project: its theoretical antecedents (which go back to the innovative ideas on mathematical analysis of the late 17th century) and first formulation, its consolidation as a foundationalist project of mathematical analysis, and its dissolution at the beginning of the 19th century. In addition, the book analyzes the influence of the ideas of the combinatorial school on German mathematics throughout the 19th century.
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Book Title: The Rise and Fall of the German Combinatorial Analysis
Authors: Eduardo Noble
Series Title: Frontiers in the History of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93820-8
Publisher: Birkhäuser Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-93819-2Published: 31 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-93820-8Published: 30 May 2022
Series ISSN: 2662-2564
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2572
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 421
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Mathematical Sciences, History of Science, Discrete Mathematics