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The Four Curves of Alexis Clairaut: References

Author(s): 
Taner Kiral (Wabash College), Jonathan Murdock (Wabash College), and Colin B. P. McKinney (Wabash College)

[1]  Camille Jordan et Madame de Stael. Nouveaux Lundis (Ed. C. Lévy), vol. 12. Paris: P. Mouillot, 1884, pp. 255–336.

[2]  Clairaut, A. Quatre Problèmes sur de Nouvelles Courbes. Miscellanea Berolinensia, vol. 4. Berlin: J. H. Rüdigeri, 1734, pp. 143–152.

[3]  Descartes, R. The Geometry of René Descartes. 1637. English translation by D. E. Smith and M. L. Latham. Republished by Dover, 2012.

[4]  Dugas, R. Éloge de Clairaut. Journal des Sçavans, (April 1766), pp. 191–194.

[5]  Eutocius of Ascalon. Commentary on Archimedes’ On The Sphere and the Cylinder. In Archimedis Opera omnia, cum commentariis Eutocii (Ed. J. L. Heiberg), vol. 1. E codice Florentino recensuit. Leipzig: B. G. Tuebneri, 1880.

[6]  Eutocius of Ascalon. Commentary on Archimedes’ On The Sphere and the Cylinder. In The Works of Archimedes: The Two Books On the Sphere and the Cylinder (Ed. R. Netz), vol. 1. Cambridge University Press, 2004.

[7]  Eutocius of Ascalon. Commentary on Archimedes’ On The Sphere and the Cylinder. In Archimedis Opera omnia, cum commentariis Eutocii (Ed. J. L. Heiberg), vol. 1. E codice Florentino recensuit. Republished by Cambridge University Press, 2013.

[8]  Grandjean de Fouchy, J.-P. Éloge de Clairaut. Histoires et Mèmoires de I'academie royale des sciences, Année 1765. Paris: Baudouin, Imprimeur de l'Institut National, 1768, pp. 144–159.

[9] Guisnée, Nicolas. Application de l’algebre à la géométrie. Paris, 1705.

[10]  Itard, J. Clairaut, Alexis-Claude. In Dictionary of Scientific Biography (Ed. C. C. Gillespie). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971, vol. 3, pp. 281–286.

[11]  Lebesgue, H. Notice sur la Vie et les Travaux de Camille Jordan. In Œuvres de Camille Jordan (Eds. R. Garnier and J. Dieudonné), vol. 4. Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Compagnie, 1964.

[12]  McKinney, C. B. P. The Duplicators, Part I: Eutocius’ Collection of Cube Duplications. Convergence, vol. 13 (2016).

[13]  Rzepka, A., Sosnowski, R., and Tylus, P. The history of the collection of Romance manuscripts from the former Preussische Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Faculty of Philology, Jagiellonian University of Kraków, 2011.

Taner Kiral (Wabash College), Jonathan Murdock (Wabash College), and Colin B. P. McKinney (Wabash College), "The Four Curves of Alexis Clairaut: References," Convergence (November 2020)