Article ID: CBB000014873

William Rowan Hamilton's paper of 1837 on the arithmetization of analysis (1978)

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Description “My study of the Essay and the literature citing it suggest that (1) although Hamilton's attempt to construct the real numbers was incorrect, the fact of its incorrectness was not discovered or noted ...and (2), the Essay was a substantial contribution towards arithmetizing analysis...”


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Authors & Contributors
Nakane, Michiyo
Fraser, Craig G.
Anne van Weerden
Thomas William Barrett
Winterbourne, Anthony T.
Wilson, Nancy
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
科学史研究 Kagakusi Kenkyu (History of Science)
British Society for the History of Mathematics Bulletin
Actes du ... Congrès International d'Histoire des Sciences
British Journal for the History of Mathematics
Science in Context
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Concepts
Algebra
Mathematics
Optics
Mathematicians
Physics
Optimization problems (mathematics)
People
Hamilton, William Rowan
Weierstrass, Karl Theodor
Peacock, George
Lloyd, Humphrey
Lagrange, Joseph Louis
Kant, Immanuel
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
Places
British Isles
Ireland
Institutions
Royal Society of London
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