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Wallis entre Hobbes et Newton. La question de l’angle de contact chez les anglais

François Loget (2002)

Revue d'histoire des mathématiques

Cet article traite d’un aspect de la controverse qui a opposé Hobbes et Wallis dans la deuxième moitié du xviie siècle, celui portant sur l’angle de contact. Wallis a publié deux traités sur l’angle de contact, l’un en 1656, l’autre en 1685. Entre ces deux dates sa position sur la question de l’angle de contact a sensiblement évolué. Durant la même période, il s’est opposé à Hobbes sur divers sujets de mathématiques, dont l’angle de contact. J’étudie les positions des deux protagonistes à travers...

What is new and what is old in Viète’s analysis restituta and algebra nova, and where do they come from ? Some reflections on the relations between algebra and analysis before Viète

Marco Panza (2007)

Revue d'histoire des mathématiques

François Viète considered most of his mathematical treatises to be part of a body of texts he entitled Opus restitutæ mathematicæ analyseos seu algebra nova. Despite this title and the fact that the term “algebra” has often been used to designate what is customarily regarded as Viète’s main contribution to mathematics, such a term is not part of his vocabulary. How should we understand this term, in the context of the title of his Opus, where “new algebra” is identified with “restored analysis”?...

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