John Pell (1611-1685) and His Correspondence with Sir Charles Cavendish: The Mental World of an Early Modern Mathematician

by John Pell, Noel Malcolm, Jacqueline A. Stedall

Writing in 1939, the historian of mathematics Herbert Turnbull described John Pell as 'a mysterious figure' and commented: 'he may well prove to be an unsuspected genius, for his manuscripts appear to survive, unexamined, in the British Museum.' Turnbull's expectations were pitched a little too high: although Pell was a man of unusual intellectual abilities, and one of the leading mathematicians of his day, his work does not merit any use of the term...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198564848
• ISBN13: 9780198564843
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 664 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"