Publications
Publications with Offprints
Books, full-length articles and book chapters are given in large typeface.
2024
” The Clebsch-Mayer Theory of the Second Variation in the Calculus of Variations: A Case Study in the influence of Dynamical Analysis on Pure Mathematics” In M.Zack, D.Waszek (eds.), Research in History and Philosophy of Mathematics, Annals of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/Société Canadienne d'histoire et de philosophie des mathématiques , Springer, pp. 1-21
Review of Sébastien Maronne's "Dettonville et les données”. Revue d'Histoire des Sciences 76 (2023), 225-266. Review in Mathematical Reviews 4694965 (2024)
” Review of Robin Arianhod's Vector: A Surprising Story of Space, Time, and Mathematical Transformation (University of Chicago, 2024).” Review in Annals of Science Published online: 30 June 2024
” Off the Shelf: Goldstine's Calculus of Variations. A review of Herman H. Goldstine's A History of the Calculus of Variations from the 17th through the 19th Century (1980) .” Bulletin of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics May 2024 No. 74 Pp.15-16.
2023
” Canonical transformations from Jacobi to Whittaker ” Archive for History of Exact Sciences 77 (2023), 241-343. Co-authored with Michiyo Nakane
Review of Lloyd Strickland and Harry Lewis's Leibniz on Binary - The Invention of Computer Arithmetic ” MIT Press(2002) in Mathematical Reviews 2023, MR4567901
”The Birth of Modern Cosmology,” CMS Notes 55 No. 2 (2023), 6 pages
Review of Giora H. Hon and Bernard R. Goldstein's "Maxwell's role in turning the concept of model into the methodology of modeling,” Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science 88 (2021) 321-333, in Mathematical Reviews 2023, MR4466837
2022
With Nichole Levesley, review of James Peebles' Cosmology's Century: An Inside History of Our Modern Understanding of the Universe,” (Princeton University Press, 2020) in CSHPM/SCHPM Bulletin 70 (May 2022) 13-14
” Vesto Slipher, Nebular Spectroscopy, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology 1912-22” HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 12 (2022), 146-169
2021
Review of Luca Guzzardi's Ruggiero Boscovich Theory of Natural Philosophy: Points, Distances, Determinations ,” (Birkhäuser/Springer, 2020), in Mathematical Reviews 2021, MR4233186
Review of Andrea Del Centina and Alessandra Fiocca, Boscovich's geometrical principle of continuity, and the "mysteries of the infinity'', ”Historia Mathematica 45 (2018), 131 175. in Mathematical Reviews 2019 MR3802554
” Euler and Analysis: Case Studies and Historiographical Perspectives ” in Niccolò Guicciardini (Ed.), Anachronisms in the History of Mathematics: Essays on the Historical Interpretation of Mathematical Texts (Cambridge University Press, 2021), pp. 223-250. Co-authored with Andrew Schroter
Review of Jane Wess's Colin Maclaurin (1698-1746) and His Contemporaries on Wind and Water: The Local and the Universal, British Journal for the History of Mathematics 35 (2020), no. 1, 63-83.” Mathematical Reviews MR4057652 (2021)
2020
” Mathematics in Library and Review Classification Systems: An Historical Overview ” Knowledge Organization 47 (2020) 334-356
Review of J. B. Shank's Before Voltaire: The French Origins of Newtonian Mechanics, 1680 1715,” (University of Chicago Press, 2018) in The Journal of Modern History 92 (2020) 197-198
2019
” Edmund Husserl s Contributions to the Second Variation in the Calculus of Variations ” in Alberto Cogliati (Ed.), Serva di due padroni. Saggi di storia della mathematica in onore di Umberto Bottazzini (Egea, 2019)
”Off the Shelf: Concepts of the Calculus,” Bulletin of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics No. 64 May 2019, pp. 17-19
”Past, Present, and Anachronism in the Historiography of Mathematics,” CMS Notes 51 No. 3 (2019), 16-17
2018
” The Culture of Research Mathematics in 1860s Prussia: Adolph Mayer and the Theory of the Second Variation in the Calculus of Variations ” M. Zack, D. Schlimm (eds.), Research in History and Philosophy of Mathematics Proceedings of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics Birkhäuser, pp. 121-140. 2018
”Library Classification in Mathematics,” Canadian Mathematical Society Notes. 50 (2018), 18-19
”Anachronism(s) in the History of Mathematics,” Bulletin of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics 63 (2018), 21-24
”Review of Jürgen Elstrodt's article "Die prägenden Jahre im Leben von Karl Weierstrasß", in Wolfgang König and Jürgen Sprekels (eds.), Leben von Karl Weierstraß Aspekte seines Lebens and Werkes, 11-51, Springer Spektrum, Wiesbaden, 2016. ” In Mathematical Reviews , MR367771 (2018)
2017
” Mathematics in Library Subject Classification Systems ” M. Zack, D. Schlimm (eds.), Research in History and Philosophy of Mathematics Proceedings of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics Birkhäuser, pp. 181-197. 2017
” Review of Tara H. Abraham's Rebel Genius: Warren S. Mcculloch's Transdisiplinary Life In Science (University of Chicago Press, 2016).” Bulletin of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics 61 (2017) Pp.23-25
”Review of Glen Van Brummelen's Heavenly Mathematics: The Forgotten Art of Spherical Trigonometry (Princeton, 2013). ” In Historia Mathematica 44 (2017) 71-73
Review of Paolo Bussotti's The Complex Itinerary of Leibniz's Planetary Theory Science Networks. Historical Studies 52 Birkhäuser/Springer (2015). ” In Mathematical Reviews , MR3408455 (2017)
Review of Augustin-Louis Cauchy's Calcul infinitésimal. ” Translated into English from the 1823 French original and with a preface by Dennis M. Cates. Fairview Academic Press, Walnut Creek, CA, 2012. Review appeared in 2017 in Mathematical Reviews, MR3308145 (2017).
2016
2015
” Nonstandard Analysis, Analysis and the History of Calculus ” in David Rowe and Wann-Sheng Horng (Eds.), A Delicate Balance: Global Perspectives on Innovation and Tradition in the History of Mathematics A Festschrift in Honor of Joseph W. Dauben Birkhäuser, pp. 25-49. 2015
” Review of Suzanne Féry Aventures de l'analyse de Fermat à Borel: Mélanges en l'honneur de Christian Gilain. (Histoires de Géométries.)(Nancy:Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 2012)” Isis 106 (2015) 160-161
Review of Daisy Hildyard's "John Pell's mathematical papers and the Royal Society's English Atlas, 1678-82.” Bulletin of the British Society for the History of Mathematics 29 (2014), 18-31. Review in Mathematical Reviews MR3169970 (2015)
2014
” Review of Elaine M. Riehm and Frances Hoffman, Turbulent Times in Mathematics: The Life of J. C. Fields and the History of the Fields Medal . American Mathematican Society and the Fields Institute, Providence, RI, 2011. ” In Annals of Science 71 (2014), 590-592 ” Review of Martin Harwit, In Search of the True Universe: The Tools, Shaping and Cost of Cosmological Thought.(Cambridge, 2013). ” In Isis 105 (2014), 828-829.” Review of Danilo Capecchi's History of Virtual Work Laws. A History of Mechanics Prospective. Science Networks. Historical Studies 42. Birkhäuser/Springer, Heidelberg, 2012. ” In Mathematical Reviews , MR2985567 (2014)
2013
” Introductory note to Zermelo's 1894 Doctoral Thesis, "Untersuchungen zur Variations-Rechnung" ” In Ernst Zermelo - Collected Works/Gesammelte Werke: Volume II/Band II - Calculus of Variations, Applied Mathematics, and Physics/Variationsrechnung . Springer: Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus et al. (Eds.), 2013, pp. 10-25
”Introduction to Ernst Zermelo's "Über die Navigation in der Luft als Problem der Variationsrechnung," Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung 39 (1930), 2nd section, 44-48 and "Über das Navigationsproblem bei ruhender oder veränderlicher Windverteilung," Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik 11 (1931), 114-124,” In Ernst Zermelo - Collected Works/Gesammelte Werke: Volume II/Band II - Calculus of Variations, Applied Mathematics, and Physics/Variationsrechnung . Springer: Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus et al. (Eds.), 2013, pp. 672-678
2012
” Review of Review of Barbara J. Becker's Unravelling Starlight: William and Margaret Huggins and the Rise of the New Astronomy (Cambridge University Press, 2011). ” In Isis 103 (2012) 186-187
” Review of Robert Osserman's "Mathematics of the Gateway Arch," Notices of the American Mathematical Society 57 (2010), 220-229. ” In Mathematical Reviews Review #2604489 (2012).
2011
” Review of Jörn Henrich, Die Fixierung des modernen Wissenschaftsideals durch Laplace. ” (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2010). In Isis 102 (2011) 777-778
Review of Ekkehard Ramm's "Principles of Least Action and of Least Constraint. ” GAMM-Mitteilungen 34 (2011), 164-182. (GAMM is an acronym for Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik.) In Mathematical Reviews MR2874031 (2011).
2010
” Review of The Princeton Companion to Mathematics . Edited by Timothy Gowers. Associate Editors June Barrow-Green and Imre Leader (Princeton, 2008).” In Historia Mathematica 37 (2010), 110-1122009
Sufficient condition, fields and the calculus of variations,” Historia Mathematica 36 (2009), pp. 420-427
“ Review of Ursula Goldenbaum and Douglas Jesseph (Eds.) Infinitesimal Differences: Controversies between Leibniz and His Contemporaries. (Walter de Gruter, Berlin and New York, 2007)” Isis 100 (2009) 654-655
2008
“Cauchy ,” in the New Dictionary of Scientific Biography Volume 2, pp. 75-79 (Scribners and Sons, 2008)
” Review of Karen Parshall's James Joseph Sylvester Jewish mathematician in a Victorian world (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006). ” Bulletin (New Series) of the American Mathematical Society 45 (2008), 435-437
” Review of Robert E. Bradley, Lawrence A. D'Antonio and C. Edward Sandifer (Eds.) Euler at 300: An Appreciation (Cambridge university Press, 2007). ” In Isis (2008) 99, 616-617
2007
” Review of Thierry Gontier's "Mathématiques et science universelle chez Bacon et chez Descartes," Revue d'Histoire des Sciences 2 (2):285-312 (2006). ” In Mathematical Reviews MR2290701 (November, 2012).
2006
The Cosmos: A Historical Perspective (Greenwood Publishers, 2006)
Review of Ivor Grattan-Guinness's "The Ecole Polytechnique, 1794–1850: Differences over Educational Purpose and Teaching Practice.” American Mathematical Monthly 112 (2005), no.3, 233–250. Review in Mathematical Reviews MR2125385 (2006)
2005
“Joseph Louis Lagrange,Théorie des fonctions analytiques," In Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics 1640-1940, pp. 208-224. Ed. I. Grattan-Guinness. (Elsevier, 2005)
“Leonhard Euler, Book on the Calculus of Variations (1744)," In Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics 1640-1940, pp. 168-180. Ed. I. Grattan-Guinness. (Elsevier, 2005)
“Theoretical Cosmology and Observational Astronomy, Circa 1930,” in Mathematics in the Physical Sciences, 1650-2000, Organized by Niccolò Guicciardini, Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen and David E. Rowe, pp. 31-34. Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach Report No. 56 (2005)
2004
” Review of Matthew R. Edwards (Ed.), Pushing Gavity: New Perspectives on Le Sage’s Theory of Gravitation (Montreal: Apeiron, C. Roy Keys Inc., 2002). ” In Annals of Science 61 (2004) 233-2352003
" The Early History of Hamilton-Jacobi Theory ," Centaurus 44 (2003), 161-227. With Michiyo Nakane
" History of Mathematics in the Eighteenth Century ", in Roy Porter (Ed.), The Cambridge History of Science Volume 4 Eighteenth-Century Science (2003), 305-327
“Calculo delle variazioni,”in Storia della scienza, editor-in-chief Sandro Petruccioli, Roma, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, V. 7, 2003, pp. 69-75
“La meccanica celeste dopo Laplace: la teoria di Hamilton-Jacobi,” in Storia della scienza, editor-in-chief Sandro Petruccioli, Roma, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, V. 7, 2003, pp. 234-243. With Michiyo Nakane
“Meccanica dei continui e dei sistemi descreti,” in Storia della scienza, editor-in-chief Sandro Petruccioli, Roma, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, V. 7, 2003, pp. 326-334
“The Writing of the History of Mathematics in Canada," in J. W. Dauben and C. J. Scriba (Eds.), Writing the History of Mathematics: Its Historical Development (Birkhäuser, 2003), pp. 285-288
Review of Gert Schubrings's "Argand and the Early work on Graphical Representation: New Sources and Interpretations,” Around Caspar Wessel and the Geometric Representation of Complex Numbers: Proceedings of the Wessel Symposium Copenhagen 1998. Ed. Jesper Lützen. Matematisk-fysiske Meddelelser 46:2, 125-146. Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab (2001). Review in Mathematical Reviews MR1943162 (2003)
Review of Adrian Rice's "Inexplicable? The status of complex numbers in Britain, 1750-1850,” Around Caspar Wessel and the Geometric Representation of Complex Numbers: Proceedings of the Wessel Symposium Copenhagen 1998. Ed. Jesper Lützen. Matematisk-fysiske Meddelelser 46:2 , Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab (2001), 147-180. Review in Mathematical Reviews MR1943163 (2003)
Review of Oscar Sheynin's "Gauss, Bessel and the Adjustment of Triangulation.”Historia Scientiarum 11 (2001) 168-175. Reviewed in Mathematical Reviews MR1895626 (2003)
2002
" Mathematics " in Brian Baigrie (Ed.), The History of Modern Science and Mathematics Volume 1 (Charles Scribner's Sons, 2002) pp.305-327
"Astronomy and Cosmology:Twentieth Century" in Brian Baigrie (Ed.), The History of Modern Science and Mathematics Volume 2 (Charles Scribner's Sons, 2002) pp.53-76
2001
Review of Wolfgang Breidert's "Maximinus und Minimajus: Roger Pamans Begründung der Fluxionsrechnung” Mathesis (2000), 119-127. Review in Mathematical Reviews MR1781651 (2001)
Review of Jean Dhombres, "L'innovation comme produit captif de la tradition: entre Apollonius et Descartes, une théorie des courbes chez Grégoire de Saint-Vincent” Geometry, Fluxions and Differentials, 13-83. Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici. Seminari di Scienze. Nuova Serie, 8. La Città del Sole, Naples, 1995. Review appeared in Mathematical Reviews MR1743281 (2001)
2000
" Field Theory in the Calculus of Variations and the Hamilton-Jacobi Theory: A Case Study in the Interaction of Pure and Applied Mathematics" in The Growth of Mathematical Knowledge, in Kluwer's Synthese Library, ed. E. Grosholz and H. Breger (Kluwer, 2000), pp. 93-101
Review of Tomohiro Hayashi's "Introducing Movement into Geometry: Roberval's Influence on Leibniz's Analysis Situs.” Historia Scientiarum (2) 8 (1998), 53–69. Review in Mathematical Reviews MR1667209 (2000)
Review of Alexander Bird's "Squaring the Circle: Hobbes on Philosophy and Geometry.” Journal of the History of Ideas 57 (1996), 217-231. Review in Mathematical Reviews MR1710148 (2000)
1999
Essay review of Paolo Mancosu's Philosophy of Mathematics and Mathematical Practice in the Eighteenth Century (1996), in Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic V. 40 (1999), 447-454
"Die Genese der Variationsrechnung," in Geschichte der Analysis, Hrsg. Hans Niels Jahnke, pp. 449-486 (Spektrum Akademischer Verlag: Heidelberg, Berlin, 1999). In the series "Texte zur Didaktik der Mathematik" English translation 2003 above
Review of Detlef Laugwitz's Bernhard Riemann 1826-1866. Wendepunkte in der Auffassung der Mathematik Vita Mathematica 10 Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel (1996).” Review in Mathematical Reviews MR1487377 (1999)
1998
” Review of Helmut Pulte's critical edition of Carl Gustav J. Jacobi's Vorlesungen über analytische Mechanik , Berlin 1847/48. Braunschweig/Wiesbaden: Vieweg, 1996. ” In Isis 89 (1998), 344-345
” Review of Leonhard Euler Commentationes astronomicae: Mechanicae et astronomicae ad physicam cosmicam pertinentes. Edited by Eric J. Aiton. Leonhardi Euleri Opera omnia, Series 2, Volume 31. Basel: Birkhäuseruser Verlag, 1996. ” In Isis 89 (1998), 137-138
1997
Calculus and Analytical Mechanics in the Age of Enlightenment (Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 1997)
" Preface to J. L. Lagrange, Analytical Mechanics " Lagrange's Mécanique analytique, nouvelle édition of 1811 translated into English and edited by Auguste Boissonnade and Victor N. Vagliente. Volume 191 of Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Dordrecht; Boston, Mass.: Kluwer Academic Publishers; 1997. Preface is on pp. vii-x
" The Background to and and Early Development of Euler's Analysis " in Analysis and Synthesis in Mathematics: History and Philosophy, Eds. Michael Otte and Marco Panza, pp. 47-78. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science Volume 196, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997
Review of Renate Tobies' "The Reception of H. Grassmann's Mathematical Achievements by A. Clebsch and His School.” Hermann Gnther Grassmann (1809-1877): Visionary Mathematician, Scientist and Neohumanist Scholar (Proceedings of a conference in Lieschow in 1994). Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science V. 187 117-130. Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, Dordrecht, 1996. Review in Mathematical Reviews MR1420644 (1997).
Review of Massimo Galuzzi's "Lagrange's essay "Recherches sur la manière de former des tables des planètes d'après les seules observations".” Revue d'Histoire des Mathématiques 1 (1995), 201-233. Review appeared in Mathematical Reviews MR1363930 (1997)
Review of David Dennis and Jere Confrey's "The Creation of Continuous Exponents: A Study of the Methods and Epistemology of John Wallis.” J. Kaput & E. Dubinsky (Eds.), Research in Collegiate Mathematics II. Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences Vol. 6, pp. 33-60. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society. 1996. Reviewed in Mathematical Reviews MR1412370 (1997)
1996
" Jacobi's result (1837) in the calculus of variations and its reformulation by Otto Hesse (1857) " In History of Mathematics and Education: Ideas and Experience, Eds. H. N Jahnke, N. Knoche and M. Otte. Volume 11 of the series "Studien zur Wissenschafts-, Sozial und Bildungsgeschichte der Mathematik". 1996. Vandenhoeck. Göttingen. Pp. 149-172
Review of Wilton Barroso Filho's "La méanique de Lagrange: Principes et méthodes. ” Paris: Karthala, 1994. Review in Isis 87, 364-365 (1996)
1995
" The concept of elastic stress in eighteenth-century mechanics: Some examples from Euler , " In Hamiltonian Dynamical Systems History, Theory and Applications. Eds. H. S. Dumas et al. Volume 63 in the "IMA Volumes in Mathematics and Applications" (Springer, 1995), pp.1-14
Review of Amy Dahan Dalmedico's Mathematisations: Augustin-Louis Cauchy et l'École Française. ” Paris: Librairie Albert Blanchard. 1992. In Isis 86 (1995), 501-503
Review of Carl Friedrich Gauss's Theoria combinationis observationum erroribus minimis obnoxiae. ” Translated from the Latin into English by G. W. Stewart. Classics in Applied Mathematics 11. Philadelphia: SIAM, 1995. Review in Isis 86, 660-661 (1995)
Review of Carl Friedrich Gauss's Theoria combinationis observationum erroribus minimis obnoxiae. Translated from the Latin into English by G. W. Stewart. Classics in Applied Mathematics 11. Philadelphia: SIAM, 1995. Review in Isis 86, 660-661 (1995)1994
" The origins of Euler's variational calculus ", Archive for History of Exact Sciences 47 (1994), 103-141
"Calculus of Variations , " In Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences , Ed. I. Grattan-Guinness, (Routledge, 1994), V.1, pp. 342-350
"Classical Mechanics , " In Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences , Ed. I. Grattan-Guinness, (Routledge, 1994), V.2, pp. 971-986
Review of Patrice Bailhache's "Isaac Beeckman a-t-il démontré la loi des cordes vibrantes selon laquelle la fréquence est inversement proportionnelle à la longueur?.”Revue d'Histoire des Sciences 45 (1992), 337-344. Reviewed in Mathematical Reviews MR1201983 (1994)
1993
Review of Michel Blay's La naissance de la mécanique analytique: La science du mouvement au tournant des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles.” Preface by Jacques Merleau-Ponty. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1992. Review published in Isis 84 (1993), 386-387.
Review of Herman Erlichson's "Newton's First Inverse Solutions.” Centaurus 34 (1991), 345-366. Review in Mathematical Reviews MR1177473 (1993)
Review of Lenore Feigenbaum's "The Fragmentation of the European Mathematical Community.” The Investigation of Difficult Things: Essays on Newton and the History of the Exact Sciences in Honour of D. T. Whiteside. Eds. P. M. Harman and Alan E. Shapiro, pp. 383-397. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992. Review appeared in Mathematical Reviews MR1200063 (1993)
1992
" Isoperimetric Problems in the Variational Calculus of Euler and Lagrange ," Historia Mathematica 19 (1992), 4-23
Review of Enrico Giusti's "Images du continu. ” The Leibniz Renaissance: International Workshop Florence 1986. ” La Biblioteca di Storia della Scienza 28 83-97 (1989). Review in Mathematical Reviews MR1121767 (1992)
Review of Jean Dieudonné's "Formal Versus Convergent Power Series. Mechanics, Analysis and Geometry: 200 Years After Lagrange, 549-558. ”North-Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam, 1991. Review in Mathematical Reviews MR1098532 (1992)
Review of D. H. Fowler's An Approximation Technique, and Its Use by Wallis and Taylor. ”Archive for History of Exact Sciences 41 (1990), 41-52. Reviewed in Mathematical Reviews MR1073825 (1992)
Review of William Waterhouse's "Gauss's First Argument for Least Squares. ”Archive for History of Exact Sciences 41 (1991), 189-233. Reviewed in Mathematical Reviews MR1107381 (1992)
Review of Ranjan Roy's "The Discovery of the Series Formula for π by Leibniz, Gregory and Nilakantha. ”Mathematics Magazine 63 (1990), 291-306. Reviewed in Mathematical Reviews MR1081274 (1992)
1991
" Mathematical Technique and Physical Conception in Euler's Investigation of the Elastica " Centaurus 34 (1991), 24-60
" The Emergence and Consolidation of Lagrange's Analysis . " Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for the History of Philosophy of Mathematics 1991 . Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. Eds. Hardy Grant, Israel Kleiner and Abe Shenitzer. Pp. 123-130
" Ecuaciones Diferenciales en la Teoría de Perturbaciones Planetarias de Lagrange. " Mathesis 7 (1991), 339-350
1990
" Lagrange's Analytical Mathematics, Its Cartesian Origins and Reception in Comte's Positive Philosophy ," Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science 21 (1990), 243-256
” History of Mathematics in the 17th and 18th Centuries ” The New Encyclopedia Britannica V.23 (1990): 616-623Review of Douglas Jesseph's "Philosophical Theory and Mathematical Practice in the Seventeenth Century. ” Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science 20 (1989), 215-244. Review in Mathematical Reviews MR1006210 (1990)
Review of Leonhard Eulers mathematische Notizbücher. ” Annals of Science 46 (1989), 277-302. Reviewed in Mathematical Reviews MR0997512 (1990)
1989
" The Calculus as Algebraic Analysis: Some Observations on Mathematical Analysis in the 18th Century ," Archive for History of Exact Sciences 39 (1989), 317-335
Review of Bernd Bekemeier's Martin Ohm (1792-1872): Universitäts- und Schulmathematik in der neuhumanistischen Bildungsreform. ”With a foreword by M. Otte. Studien zur Wissenschafts-, Sozial- und Bildungsgeschichte der Mathematik 4 Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1987. In Mathematical Reviews MR0919944 (1989)
Review of J. V. Field's Perspective and the Mathematicians: Alberti to Desargues. Mathematics from Manuscript to Print, 1300-1600 ” (Oxford, 1984), 236-263. Reprinted 1988. Review in Mathematical Reviews MR0961300 (1989)
Review of René Taton's "Le départ de Lagrange de Berlin et son installation à Paris en 1787. ” Revue d'Histoire des Sciences 41 (1988),39-74. Review in Mathematical Reviews MR0950113 (1989)
1988
" Pure and Applied Mathematics in the Philosophies of d'Alembert and Kant . " Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for the History of Philosophy of Mathematics 1988 . University of Windsor, Ontario. Ed. Tasoula Berggren. Pp. 64-82
” Review of Roger Herz-Fischler's A Mathematical History of Division in Extreme and Mean Ratio. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Waterloo, ON, 1987. ” In Mathematical Reviews (November 1988), MR0907871
1987
" Joseph Louis Lagrange's Algebraic Vision of the Calculus ," Historia Mathematica 14 (1987), 38-53
”Review of Stephen Engelsman's Families of Curves and the Origins of Partial Differentiation (Amsterdam: North Holland, 1984). ” In British Journal for the History of Science 20 (1987), 237
” Review of Michael J. Crowe's A History of Vector Analysis. The Evolution of the Idea of a Vectorial System. Notre Dame University Press, 1967; Dover reprint 1985. ” In American Journal of Physics 55 (1987), 669
1985
" J.L. Lagrange's Changing Approach to the Foundations of the Calculus of Variations ," Archive for History of Exact Sciences 32, (1985), 151-191
" D'Alembert's Principle: The Original Formulation and Application in Jean D'Alembert's Traité de Dynamique (1743) Part 1 " Centaurus 28 (1985), 31-61
" D'Alembert's Principle: The Original Formulation and Application in Jean D'Alembert's Trait de Dynamique (1743) Part 2 " Centaurus 28 (1985), 145-159
1983
Essay review of J.T. Cannon and S. Dostrovsky's The Evolution of Dynamics: Vibration Theory 1687-1742, in Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 9 (1983):107-111
" J.L. Lagrange's Early Contributions to the Principles and Methods of Mechanics ," Archive for History of Exact Sciences 28, (1983), 197-241
1981
Review of L. Bucciarelli and N. Dworsky's Sophie Germain: An Essay in the History of Elasticity. Dordrecht, Holland; Boston: D. Reidel Pub. Co.; Hingham, MA. 1980.," In Physics Today 34(7) (1981):60=62