Sources in the Development of Mathematics : Series and Products from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)

1. Power series in fifteenth-century Kerala; 2. Sums of powers of integers; 3. Infinite product of Wallis; 4. The binomial theorem; 5. The rectification of curves; 6. Inequalities; 7. Geometric calculus; 8. The calculus of Newton and Leibniz; 9. De Analysi per Aequationes Infinitas; 10. Finite differences: interpolation and quadrature; 11. Series transformation by finite differences; 12. The Taylor series; 13. Integration of rational functions; 14. Difference equations; 15. Differential equations; 16. Series and products for elementary functions; 17. Solution of equations by radicals; 18. Symmetric functions; 19. Calculus of several variables; 20. Algebraic analysis: the calculus of operations; 21. Fourier series; 22. Trigonometric series after 1830; 23. The gamma function; 24. The asymptotic series for ln Γ(x); 25. The Euler?Maclaurin summation formula; 26. L-series; 27. The hypergeometric series; 28. Orthogonal polynomials; 29. q-Series; 30. Partitions; 31. q-Series and q-orthogonal polynomials; 32. Primes in arithmetic progressions; 33. Distribution of primes: early results; 34. Invariant theory: Cayley and Sylvester; 35. Summability; 36. Elliptic functions: eighteenth century; 37. Elliptic functions: nineteenth century; 38. Irrational and transcendental numbers; 39. Value distribution theory; 40. Univalent functions; 41. Finite fields.