Calculus Gallery

The Calculus Gallery is a wonderful book. The style is inviting; the explanations are clear and accessible... Mathematicians, scientists, and historians alike can learn much that is interesting, much that is mathematically significant, and a good deal that is both. -- Judith V. Grabiner Science [A] brilliant book... I predict that Dunham's book will itself come to be considered a masterpiece in its field. -- Victor J. Katz American Scientist What distinguishes this selection is it truly provides a history of mathematics, not just a history of mathematicians... If a better historical treatment of the development of the calculus is available, this reviewer has yet to see it... Essential. Choice A joy to read, The Calculus Gallery showcases one of the great intellectual pursuits of all time and, in the words of John von Neumann, 'the first achievement of modern mathematics.' Thirteen scholars, beginning with Newton and Leibniz, who gave birth to calculus in the seventeenth century, are featured in this sequential development of the important ideas that shaped calculus as we know it and gave rise to modern analysis... [I]t is a lovely and engaging gallery of the 'masters' that belongs in the library of everyone who seriously teaches or studies the subject. -- Diane M. Spresser Mathematics Teacher A fascinating, competent visit too the calculus gallery. -- Eberhard Knobloch Zentralblatt MATH