Mathematician:Isaac Todhunter
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Mathematician
English mathematician best known nowadays for his books on mathematics and its history.
Nationality
English
History
- Born: 23 Nov 1820 in Rye, Sussex, England
- Died: 1 March 1884 in Cambridge, England
Publications
- 1852: Treatise on the Differential Calculus and the Elements of the Integral Calculus (6th ed. 1873)
- 1853: Treatise on Analytical Statics (4th ed. 1874)
- 1855: Plane Coordinate Geometry
- 1857: Treatise on the Integral Calculus (4th ed. 1874)
- 1858: Treatise on Algebra (6th ed. 1871)
- 1858: Treatise on Plane Coordinate Geometry (3rd ed. 1861)
- 1858: Examples of Analytical Geometry of Three Dimensions (3rd ed. 1873)
- 1859: Plane Trigonometry (4th ed. 1869)
- 1859: Spherical Trigonometry
- 1861: History of the Calculus of Variations
- 1861: Theory of Equations (2nd ed. 1875)
- 1862: Euclid
- 1865: History of the Mathematical Theory of Probability from the Time of Pascal to that of Lagrange
- 1867: Mechanics
- 1869: Mensuration
- 1871: Researches in the Calculus of Variations
- 1873: History of the Mathematical Theories of Attraction and Figure of the Earth from Newton to Laplace
- 1873: The Conflict of Studies and Other Essays on Subjects Connected with Education
- 1875: An Elementary Treatise on Laplace's, Lame's and Bessel's Functions
- 1875: Functions of Laplace, Bessel and Legendre
- 1876: W. Whewell: an Account of his Writings (2 vols.)
- 1877: Natural Philosophy for Beginners
- 1886: The History of the Theory of Elasticity (edited and published posthumously by Karl Pearson)