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Thomas Harriot's Doctrine of Triangular Numbers: the `Magisteria Magna'

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Author(s): Janet Beery and Jacqueline Stedall, Janet L. Beery, Jacqueline A. Stedall
Series: Heritage of European Mathematics
Publisher: European Mathematical Society
Year: 2008

Language: English
Commentary: no
Pages: 147

Cover......Page 1
Previously published......Page 3
Title......Page 4
ISBN 978-3-03719-059-3......Page 5
Preface......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Thomas Harriot and the ‘Magisteria magna’:a short chronology......Page 10
Thomas Harriot’s ‘Magisteria magna’and constant difference interpolationin the seventeenth century......Page 12
Triangular numbers......Page 13
Harriot’s difference method......Page 16
The origins and ‘many uses’ of Harriot’s method......Page 20
The influence of the ‘Magisteria’......Page 29
Conclusion......Page 61
Bibliography......Page 62
Acknowledgements......Page 146
Back Cover......Page 147