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Science 24 June 2005:
Vol. 308. no. 5730, p. 1872
DOI: 10.1126/science.1111597
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MATHEMATICS:
Landmarks on the Road to Modern Analysis

Judith V. Grabiner

The Calculus Gallery
Masterpieces from Newton to Lebesgue
by William Dunham
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2005. 252 pp. $29.95, £18.95. ISBN 0-691-09565-5.
Using modern terms and notations, the author presents the growth of calculus through a sample of the contributions of 13 mathematicians who have shaped its development.
The reviewer is at the Mathematics Department, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA 91711, USA. E-mail: jgrabine{at}pitzer.edu

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