This book contains a history of real and complex analysis in the nineteenth century, from the work of Lagrange and Fourier to the origins of set theory and the modern foundations of analysis.
Based on a course for third-year university students, the book contains numerous historical and mathematical exercises, offers extensive advice to the student on how to write essays, and can easily be used in whole or in part as a course in the history of mathematics.
A novel which tackles the issue of assisted dying as its core, as well as the complicated moral issues that surround it. The story comes from a deepening awareness, by the author, of... Læs mere