We provide an overview of the calculi developed in eighteenth-century Europe, outlining the plurality of versions of the calculus adopted by European mathematicians in that period, highlighting also the fragmentation of Newtonian and the Leibnizian heritages into several strands that gave rise to various debates and conflicts.

Eighteenth-century calculi: Newtonian, Leibnizian, Eulerian and Lagrangian / N. Guicciardini - In: Mathematics, its Applications and History / [a cura di] S. G. Dani. - Dehli : Narosa Publishing House, 2022. - ISBN 978-81-8487-723-6. - pp. 1-20

Eighteenth-century calculi: Newtonian, Leibnizian, Eulerian and Lagrangian

N. Guicciardini
2022

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We provide an overview of the calculi developed in eighteenth-century Europe, outlining the plurality of versions of the calculus adopted by European mathematicians in that period, highlighting also the fragmentation of Newtonian and the Leibnizian heritages into several strands that gave rise to various debates and conflicts.
History of mathematics; calculus; Newton; Leibniz; Euler; Lagrange
Settore M-STO/05 - Storia della Scienza e delle Tecniche
2022
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