A Treatise on Differential Equations

George Boole author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:21st Aug '14

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The influence of this 1859 work can still be traced in many modern treatments of differential equations and numerical analysis.

The need to support his family meant that George Boole (1815–64) was a largely self-educated mathematician. Widely recognised for his ability, he became the first professor of mathematics at Cork. Boole belonged to the British school of algebra, which held what now seems to modern mathematicians to be an excessive belief in the power of symbolism. However, in Boole's hands symbolic algebra became a source of novel and lasting mathematics. Also reissued in this series, his masterpiece was An Investigation of the Laws of Thought (1854), and his two later works A Treatise on Differential Equations (1859) and A Treatise on the Calculus of Finite Differences (1860) exercised an influence which can still be traced in many modern treatments of differential equations and numerical analysis. The beautiful and mysterious formulae that Boole obtained are among the direct ancestors of the theories of distributions and of operator algebras.

ISBN: 9781108067928

Dimensions: 216mm x 140mm x 29mm

Weight: 650g

518 pages