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The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton: Volume 5, 1683-1684 (Paperback)
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The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton: Volume 5, 1683-1684 (Paperback)
Series: The Mathematical Papers of Sir Isaac Newton
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The fifth volume of this definitive edition centres around Newton's
Lucasian lectures on algebra, purportedly delivered during 1673-83,
and subsequently prepared for publication under the title
Arithmetica Universalis many years later. Dr Whiteside first
reproduces the text of the lectures deposited by Newton in the
Cambridge University Library about 1684. In these much reworked,
not quite finished, professional lectiones, Newton builds upon his
earlier studies of the fundamentals of algebra and its application
to the theory and construction of equations, developing new
techniques for the factorizing of algebraic quantities and the
delimitation of bounds to the number and location of roots, with a
wealth of worked arithmetical, geometrical, mechanical and
astronomical problems. An historical introduction traces what is
known of the background to the parent manuscript and assesses the
subsequent impact of the edition prepared by Whiston about 1705 and
the revised version published by Newton himself in 1722. A number
of minor worksheets, preliminary drafts and later augmentations
buttress this primary text, throwing light upon its development and
the essential untrustworthiness of its imposed marginal chronology.
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