John Pell (1611-1685) and His Correspondence with Sir Charles Cavendish: The Mental World of an Early Modern Mathematician
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Writing in 1939, the historian of mathematics Herbert Turnbull described John Pell as 'a mysterious figure' and commented: 'he may well prove to be an unsuspected genius, for his manuscripts appear to survive, unexamined, in the British Museum.' Turnbull's expectations were pitched a little too high: although Pell was a man of unusual intellectual abilities, and one of the leading mathematicians of his day, his work does not merit any use of the term...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0198564848
ISBN13:9780198564843
Release Date:February 2005
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Length:664 Pages
Weight:2.90 lbs.
Dimensions:1.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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