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Thomas Simpson and Maxima and Minima - Bibliography

Author(s): 
Michel Helfgott

Cauchy, A.-L. (1823). Resume des Lecons Donees a L’Ecole Royale Polytechnique: Calcul Infinitesimal.  Paris. Reprinted in 1994 by Aubin Imprimeur, Liguge, Poitiers, France.

Clarke, F.M. (1929). Thomas Simpson and His Times. New York.

Simpson, T. (1823). Doctrine and Application of Fluxions. Edinburgh : Bell and Bradfute.

Siu, M. (1995). "Concept of Function -- Its History and Teaching," in Learn from the Masters (Swetz F. J. et al, Editors). Washington, DC: Mathematical Association of America.

Swetz, F. J. (1995). "Using Problems from the History of Mathematics in Classroom Instruction," in Learn from the Masters (Swetz F.J. et al., Editors). Washington, DC: Mathematical Association of America.

 

Editor’s Note: This article was published in 2005.

Michel Helfgott, "Thomas Simpson and Maxima and Minima - Bibliography," Convergence (August 2010)