[HM] James Gregory and Brook Taylor

David Fowler (david.fowler@warwick.ac.uk)
Wed, 13 Jan 1999 09:09:18 -0700

I have been asked for the following information, which I cannot provide
satisfactorily; can anyone help. Also send copies of your replies to
Dennis Almeida, please.

David Fowler

> From: Dennis Francis Almeida <D.F.Almeida@exeter.ac.uk>
> To: dfh@maths.warwick.ac.uk
> Subject: James Gregory and Brook Taylor
>
> I write to you in regard to a research enquiry. This
> relates to the epistemological similarities between medieval
> Indian mathematics and the precalculus works in Europe. I
> would be grateful for advice on reliable papers in English
> which analyse Gregory's 'Geometriae pars Universalis' and
> Taylor's 'Methodus incrementorum directa et inversa'.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Dennis Almeida, Lecturer in Mathematics Education,
> University of Exeter