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First published in 1970. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1970. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
The Cambridge polymath Isaac Barrow (1630 77) gained recognition as
a theologian, classicist and mathematician. This one-volume
collection of his mathematical writings, dutifully edited by one of
his successors as Master of Trinity College, William Whewell (1794
1866), was first published in 1860. Containing significant
contributions to the field, the work consists chiefly of the
lectures on mathematics, optics and geometry that Barrow gave in
his position as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics between 1663 and
1669. It includes the first general statement of the fundamental
theorem of calculus as well as Barrow's 'differential triangle'.
Not only did he precede Isaac Newton in the Lucasian chair, but his
works were also to be found in the library of Gottfried Leibniz.
However, rather than considering arid questions of priority,
scholars can see in these Latin texts the status of advanced
mathematics just before the great revolution of Newton and Leibniz.
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