The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton: Volume 7, 16911695 ... - 9780521045896

The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton: Volume 7, 16911695Author(s): Isaac Newton, D. T. Whiteside\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521045896, 978-0521045896\nSynopsis\nNewton's mathematical researches during the last five years of his stay in Cambridge before leaving in April 1696 to take up his duties at the Mint in London have three main centres of interest: methods of fluxions and series, classical pure geometry, and Cartesian analytical geometry. Part 1 reproduces Newton's advances at this time in further extending the techniques of his combined calculus of fluxions and fluent, and of expansion into infinite series. Part 2 gives publication of Newton's lengthy excursions in the early 1690s into the modes of geometrical analysis used by the 'ancient' geometers, based by way of Commandino's Latin translation on the account of this little understood field of the Greek 'topos analuomenos' .