This text examines the reinterpretation of calculus by Augustin-Louis Cauchy and his peers in the 19th century. These intellectuals created a collection of well

In 1821, Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789-1857) published a textbook, the Cours d’analyse, to accompany his course in analysis at the Ecole Polytechnique. It is on

This text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students examines the events that led to a major intellectual revolution of the early nineteenth century: t

A great difficulty facing a biographer of Cauchy is that of delineating the curious interplay between the man, his times, and his scientific endeavors. Professo

In preparing the second edition, I have taken advantage of the opportunity to correct errors as well as revise the presentation in many places. New material has