Analysis as a feature of 17th century mathematics

Herbert Breger ()

Chapter Chapter 13 in Kontinuum, Analysis, Informales – Beiträge zur Mathematik und Philosophie von Leibniz, 2016, pp 159-173 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The shining example for mathematicians of the 17th century was neither Euclid nor Apollonius nor Diophantus; it was Archimedes. Galilei talks of “divino Archimede” (Galilei 1890: 303) and Huygens’s father called his young son “mon petit Archimède” (Huygens 1889: 567) und not, for example, “mon petit Euclide”. Archimedes had solved problems of quadrature, which in the 17th century belonged to the most interesting problems, and he had used new methods in doing so.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-50399-7_13

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