Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1158827 Historia Mathematica 2009 26 Pages PDF
Abstract

The mathematical work of James Glenie (1750–1817) was published at irregular intervals during a turbulent life. His ideas, mostly deriving from his time as an Assistant in Mathematics at St Andrews University in Scotland, were developed intermittently over a period of thirty-seven years. His mathematical achievements, underestimated by previous historians, were deeply rooted in Euclidean geometry and his own generalized theory of proportion. Among them are many new geometrical constructions and proofs, a novel demonstration of the binomial theorem, and an alternative approach to the differential calculus.

RésuméLa vie de James Glenie (1750–1817) était turbulente, et ses ouvrages mathématiques furent publiés irrégulièrement. Ses idées, prenant leur origine, par la plupart, dans la periode où il était Assistant en mathématique à l'Université de St Andrews en Écosse, furent developpées pendant trente-sept ans environ. Ses succès mathématiques, sousestimés auparavant, furent enracinés dans la géometrie Euclidienne et dans sa théorie originale des proportions géneralisées. Parmi eux il y a plusieurs constructions et preuves géometriques nouvelles, une démonstration originale du théorème binomial, et une approche alternative au calcul différentiel.

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