Author | Belhoste, Bruno. author |
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Title | Augustin-Louis Cauchy [electronic resource] : A Biography / by Bruno Belhoste |
Imprint | New York, NY : Springer New York, 1991 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2996-4 |
Descript | XII, 380 p. online resource |
1 The Formative Years -- 2 Sojourn at Cherbourg -- 3 The Waiting Room of the Academy -- 4 A Man of Science -- 5 Teaching at the รcole Polytechnique -- 6 From the Theory of Waves to the Theory of Light -- 7 From the Theory of Singular Integrals to the Calculus of Residues -- 8 A Mathematician in the Congrรฉgation -- 9 Exile in Turin -- 10 The Education of the Duke of Bordeaux -- 11 The Legitimist Mathematician -- 12 Scientific Works from 1838 to 1848 -- 13 Practices and Principles in Cauchyโs Works -- 14 The Final Years 1848โ1857 -- Notes -- Appendix I: Presentation Notes of Various Works Presented by Cauchy to the Acadรฉmie des Sciences (1816โ1830) -- Appendix II: Documents on Cauchyโs Analysis Course at the รcole Polytechnique (1816โ1819) -- Appendix III: Selection of Letters from Cauchy to Various Persons (1821โ1857) -- Appendix IV: Unpublished Documents on Cauchyโs Candidacies to the Collรจge de France (1843 and 1850โ1851) -- Manuscript Sources and Bibliography -- Abbreviations