Changing Attitudes toward Mathematical Rigor: Lagrange and Analysis in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Authors

Judith V. Grabiner, Pitzer CollegeFollow

Document Type

Book Chapter

Program

Mathematics (Pitzer)

Publication Date

1981

Keywords

Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Analysis, Eighteenth century, Nineteenth century

Abstract

This work is a chapter in Section III: "Mathematics in the Early 19th Century" of Epistemological and Social Problems of the Development of the Sciences in the Early Nineteenth Century, edited by Hans Niels Jahnke and M. Otte.

Rights Information

© 1981 D. Reidel Publishing Company

Recommended Citation

Grabiner, Judith V. “Changing Attitudes toward Mathematical Rigor: Lagrange and Analysis in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries." Epistemological and Social Problems of the Development of the Sciences in the Early Nineteenth Century. Ed. Hans Niels Jahnke and M. Otte. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1981. 311-330.