Suchergebnisse

Introduction: The Low Countries, Spain, and Europe -- The college and its school of mathematics -- The seventeenth century : the dawn of a new era -- Francisco de Aguilón and mathematical optics -- Gregorio a San Vicente : an ignored genius -- The creative Antwerp-Leuven period -- Exhaustion : the road to infinitesimals -- Infinitesimal calculus at work -- Rome and Prague, the final discoveries -- The erroneous circle quadrature -- Joannes della Faille and the beginning of projective geometry -- The Antwerp students -- The Leuven students -- The later disciples -- The Jesuit architects -- The influence of the school of mathematics.