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A study of the Traité des indivisibles of Gilles Persone de Roberval, with a view to answering, insofar as is possible, the two questions: which propositions contained therein are his own, and which are due to his predecessors or contemporaries? and what effect, if any, had this work on his successors?

Title
A study of the Traité des indivisibles of Gilles Persone de Roberval, with a view to answering, insofar as is possible, the two questions: which propositions contained therein are his own, and which are due to his predecessors or contemporaries? and what effect, if any, had this work on his successors? By Evelyn Walker.
Author
Walker, Evelyn, 1874-1953.
Publication
New York city, Teachers college, Columbia University, 1932.

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Description
vi, 272 pages diagrams; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Teachers college, Columbia university. Contributions to education, no. 446
Uniform Title
Contributions to education ; no. 446.
Alternative Title
  • Traité des indivisibles, A Study of the.
  • Indivisibles, A study of the Traité des.
Subject
  • Roberval, Gilles Personne de, 1602-1675
  • Calculus, Integral
  • Cycloids
  • Mathematics > Early works to 1800
  • Mathematics
Genre/Form
Early works.
Note
  • Issued also as thesis (PH. D.) Columbia university.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-268) and index.
Contents
pt. I. Introduction.--pt. II. Discussion of the contents of the Traité des indivisibles.--pt. III. The translation of the Traité des indivisibles.--Bibliography (p. 259-268)
LCCN
32018221
OCLC
  • ocm02941100
  • 2941100
  • SCSB-223058
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library