The top documents tagged [historians of mathematics]

Philip Kitcher -- Fluxions, Limits, And Infinite Littlenesse. a Study of Newton's Presentation of the Calculus

Math Modernism

Thursday, January 04, 2007 I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. - Albert.

Jerome Cardan - ''the Book of My Life'' [de Vita Propria Liber, 1575]