From the Calculus to Set Theory traces the development of the calculus from the early seventeenth century through its expansion into mathematical analysis to the developments in set theory and the foundations of mathematics in the early twentieth century. It chronicles the work of mathematicians from Descartes and Newton to Russell and Hilbert and many, many others while emphasizing foundational questions and underlining the continuity of developments in higher mathematics. The other contributors to this volume are H. J. M. Bos, R. Bunn, J. W. Dauben, T. W. Hawkins, and K. Møller-Pedersen.
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I. Grattan-Guinness is Professor of the History of Mathematics and Logic at Middlesex University. Founder of the journal
History and Philosophy of Logic and past President of the British Society for the History of Mathematics, he has authored or edited numerous books, including
The Norton History of Mathematics, Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences, and
Convolutions in French Mathematics, 1800-1840, and
The Search for Mathematical Roots, 1870-1940.
