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Newton's Attempt to Construct a Unitary View of Mathematics (2010)

Galuzzi, Massimo (Author)

Historia Mathematica
Volume: 37
Pages: 535--562
Publication date: 2010
Language: English

Publication Date: 2010
Edition Details: Part of a special issue, “Contexts, Emergence and Issues of Cartesian Geometry”

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Calculus Geometry Mathematics 17th century 18th century England Newton, Isaac

In this paper Newton's persistent attempts to construct a unitary view of mathematics are examined. To reconcile the calculus of fluxions with Euclid's Elements or Apollonius's Conics appears, with the benefit of hindsight, an enterprise that cannot be accomplished simply by a widening of Greek mathematical thought. It requires a deep modification of the epistemological ground. Although Newton's attempts remained for the most part in manuscript form, it is hardly doubtful that Newton's ideas paved the way for the deep modifications that mathematics underwent in the succeeding centuries.

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