Mathematisation of the Science of Motion and the Birth of Analytical Mechanics : A Historiographical Note

Authors

Marco Panza, Chapman UniversityFollow

Document Type

Book

Publication Date

3-31-2002

Abstract

Usually, one speaks of mathematization of a natural or social science to mean that mathematics comes to be a tool of such a science: the language of mathematics is used to formulate its results, and/or some mathematical techniques is employed to obtain these results.

Comments

This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of a chapter accepted for publication in Paola Cerrai, Paolo Freguglia, Claudio Pellegrini (Eds.), The Application of Mathematics to the Sciences of Nature. Critical moments and Aspects. This version may not exactly replicate the final published version. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0591-4_19

Recommended Citation

Panza, M. (2002). Mathematisation of the Science of Motion and the Birth of Analytical Mechanics: A Historiographical Note. In: Cerrai, P., Freguglia, P., Pellegrini, C. (eds) The Application of Mathematics to the Sciences of Nature. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0591-4_19

Copyright

Springer