Article ID: CBB000068483

Lagrange's essay “Recherches sur la manière de former des tables des planètes d'après les seules observations” (1995)

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Description “The purpose of this study is to show the significance of the novel mathematical ideas [Lagrange's essay] contains, and in particular to look at this essay from the perspective of generating function theory, for which the theoretical foundations would be laid some little time later by Laplace.”


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Authors & Contributors
Pepe, Luigi
Grabiner, Judith V.
Patergnani, Elisa
Jouve, Guillame
Elena Borgi
Morten Misfeldt
Journals
Bollettino di Storia delle Scienze Matematiche
Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences
Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu (Studies in the History of Natural Sciences)
Science in Context
Rivista di Storia della Scienza
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
Publishers
Garland
European Mathematical Society
Accademia delle Scienze di Torino
Concepts
Mathematics
Calculus
Astronomy
Scientific communities; interprofessional relations
Societies; institutions; academies
Algebra
People
Lagrange, Joseph Louis
Euler, Leonhard
Alembert, Jean le Rond d'
Laplace, Pierre Simon
Bernoulli, Daniel
Malfatti, Gian Francesco
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
Enlightenment
17th century
16th century
Places
France
Italy
Germany
Paris (France)
England
Turin (Italy)
Institutions
Università degli Studi di Torino
Accademia delle Scienze di Torino
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