Name: A History of the Mathematical Theories of Attraction and the Figure of the Earth 2 Volume Set: A History of the Mathematical Theories of Attraction. (Cambridge Library Collection - Mathematics) (en Inglés)
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Author: Isaac Todhunter
ISBN: 9781108084581

portada A History of the Mathematical Theories of Attraction and the Figure of the Earth 2 Volume Set: A History of the Mathematical Theories of Attraction. (Cambridge Library Collection - Mathematics) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Cambridge University Press

Autor

Isaac Todhunter

Año

2015

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

518

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781108084581

N° edición

Categorías

Filosofía de las matemáticas
Historia de las matemáticas

A History of the Mathematical Theories of Attraction and the Figure of the Earth 2 Volume Set: A History of the Mathematical Theories of Attraction. (Cambridge Library Collection - Mathematics) (en Inglés)

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Newton's Principia paints a picture of the earth as a spinning, gravitating ball. However, the earth is not completely rigid and the interplay of forces will modify its shape in subtle ways. Newton predicted a flattening at the poles, yet others disagreed. Plenty of books have described the expeditions which sought to measure the shape of the earth, but very little has appeared on the mathematics of a problem, which remains of enduring interest even in an age of satellites. Published in 1874, this two-volume work by Isaac Todhunter (1820–84), perhaps the greatest Victorian historian of mathematics, takes the mathematical story from Newton, through the expeditions which settled the matter in Newton's favour, to the investigations of Laplace which opened a new era in mathematical physics. Volume 2 is largely devoted to the work of Laplace, tracing developments up to 1825.