Between tradition and innovation : Gregorio a San Vicente and the Flemish Jesuit mathematics school / / by Ad J. Meskens ; with contributions by Herman van Looy |
Autore | Meskens Ad |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, The Netherlands ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2021] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 293 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Disciplina | 510.711493 |
Collana | Jesuit Studies |
Soggetto topico |
Mathematics - Belgium - History - 17th century
Mathematicians - Belgium Mathematics teachers - Belgium |
ISBN | 90-04-44790-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: The Low Countries, Spain, and Europe -- The college and its school of mathematics -- The seventeenth century : the dawn of a new era -- Francisco de Aguilón and mathematical optics -- Gregorio a San Vicente : an ignored genius -- The creative Antwerp-Leuven period -- Exhaustion : the road to infinitesimals -- Infinitesimal calculus at work -- Rome and Prague, the final discoveries -- The erroneous circle quadrature -- Joannes della Faille and the beginning of projective geometry -- The Antwerp students -- The Leuven students -- The later disciples -- The Jesuit architects -- The influence of the school of mathematics. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910794687303321 |
Meskens Ad | ||
Leiden, The Netherlands ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2021] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Between tradition and innovation : Gregorio a San Vicente and the Flemish Jesuit mathematics school / / by Ad J. Meskens ; with contributions by Herman van Looy |
Autore | Meskens Ad |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, The Netherlands ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2021] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 293 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Disciplina | 510.711493 |
Collana | Jesuit Studies |
Soggetto topico |
Mathematics - Belgium - History - 17th century
Mathematicians - Belgium Mathematics teachers - Belgium |
ISBN | 90-04-44790-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: The Low Countries, Spain, and Europe -- The college and its school of mathematics -- The seventeenth century : the dawn of a new era -- Francisco de Aguilón and mathematical optics -- Gregorio a San Vicente : an ignored genius -- The creative Antwerp-Leuven period -- Exhaustion : the road to infinitesimals -- Infinitesimal calculus at work -- Rome and Prague, the final discoveries -- The erroneous circle quadrature -- Joannes della Faille and the beginning of projective geometry -- The Antwerp students -- The Leuven students -- The later disciples -- The Jesuit architects -- The influence of the school of mathematics. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910810079203321 |
Meskens Ad | ||
Leiden, The Netherlands ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2021] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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