A History of Numerical Analysis from the 16th through the 19th Century

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A History of Numerical Analysis from the 16th through the 19th Century\nby H. H. Goldstine\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: H. H. Goldstine\nTitle: A History of Numerical Analysis from the 16th through the 19th Century\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Applied mathematics\nPublisher: Springer\nPublication year: 1977\nEdition: 1977\nISBN-13: 9780387902777\nISBN-10: 0387902775\nRRP: \u00A389.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n1. The Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries.- 1.1. Introduction.- 1.2. Napier and Logarithms.- 1.3. Briggs and His Logarithms.- 1.4. B\u00FCrgi and His Antilogarithms.- 1.5. Interpolation.- 1.6. Vieta and Briggs.- 1.7. Kepler.- 2. The Age of Newton.- 2.1. Introduction.- 2.2. Logarithms and Finite Differences.- 2.3. Trigonometric Tables.- 2.4. The Newto.