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Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik, von Moritz Cantor. Dritter (Schluss) Band

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

George A. Gibson
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With the issue of the Third Part of the Third Volume, Mr Cantor completes his History of Mathematics, in accordance with the plan he sketched out for himself when he undertook the work. That the labour involved in collecting material and in reducing it to shape would be great, Mr Cantor doubtless well knew; but in all probability his most liberal estimate of the demands likely to be made upon his energies has been far exceeded; in any case, one can readily understand the feelings of satisfaction with which he writes the preface to the concluding volume.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 17 , February 1898 , pp. 9 - 32
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1898

References

page 10 note * Proc. Edin. Math. Soc., Vol. XIV.

page 11 note * Berkeley's Works (Fraser's Edition), Vol. III., 257–8.

page 12 note * Works, III., p. 270.

page 12 note † Phil. Mag. (S. 4) 1852, IV, 329, note.

page 32 note * At p. 634 Mr Cantor expresses the opinion that in a certain memoir of Euler the idea on which the method of undetermined coefficients is founded is first clearly expressed. The method of undetermined coefficients was certainly well known to Newton, and is frequently applied in the Quadratura.