Pre-viewing the rainbow -- Invisible origins and ancient traditions -- A quiet millennium: from the early Middle Ages into the European Renaissance -- The age of trigonometry: Europe, 1540-1660 -- The ...
The Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707–83) was all but blind when he moved to St Petersburg in 1766 for a second stint as the star of the Russian Imperial Academy of Sciences. He had lost vision ...
The SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis features research articles of the highest quality employing innovative analytical techniques to treat problems in the natural sciences. Every paper has ...
Adapted fromInfinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World, by Amir Alexander, by arrangement with Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and ...