1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996395929503316

Autore

Fage Robert

Titolo

A description of the whole world [[electronic resource] ] : with some general rules touching the use of the globe, wherein is contained the situation of several countries. Their particular and distinct governments, religions, arms, and degrees of honour used among them. Very delightful to be read in so small a volume. / / By Robert Fage, Esq

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by J. Owsley, and sold by Peter Stent, at the White-horse in Guilt-spur-street, between Newgate and Pye-Corner, 1658

Descrizione fisica

70, [2] p. : map (folded)

Soggetti

Geography

Anthropology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

With a final advertisement leaf.

Annotation on Thomason copy: "ffebr. 9."; the 8 in the imprint date has been crossed out and replaced with a "7".

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778255603321

Titolo

From Kant to Hilbert [[electronic resource] ] : a source book in the foundations of mathematics . Volume 1 / / [compiled by] William Ewald

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Clarendon Press

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999

ISBN

1-383-02108-2

1-281-76998-3

9786611769987

0-19-152309-7

1-4356-0965-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (695 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

EwaldWilliam Bragg <1925->

Disciplina

510.1

510/.1

Soggetti

Mathematics - Philosophy

Mathematics - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 1996.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Copyright Permissions; Introduction; 1. GEORGE BERKELEY (1685-1753); 2. COLIN MACLAURIN (1698-1746); 3. JEAN LEROND D'ALEMBERT (1717-1783); 4. IMMANUEL KANT (1724-1804); 5. JOHANN HEINRICH LAMBERT (1728-1777); 6. BERNARD BOLZANO (1781-1848); 7. CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS (1777-1855); 8. DUNCAN GREGORY (1813-1844); 9. AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN (1806-1871); 10. WILLIAM ROWAN HAMILTON (1805-1865); 11. GEORGE BOOLE (1815-1864); 12. JAMES JOSEPH SYLVESTER (1814-1897); 13. WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD (1845-1879); 14. ARTHUR CAYLEY (1821-1895); 15. CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE (1839-1914); References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This two-volume work brings together a comprehensive selection of mathematical works from the period 1707-1930. During this time the foundations of modern mathematics were laid, and From Kant to Hilbert provides an overview of the foundational work in each of the main branches of mathmeatics with narratives showing how they were linked. Now available as a separate volume. - ;Immanuel Kant's Critique



of Pure Reason is widely taken to be the starting point of the modern period of mathematics while David Hilbert was the last great mainstream mathematician to pursue important nineteenth cnetury id