John Pell (1611-1685) and His Correspondence with Sir Charles Cavendish: The Mental World of an Early Modern Mathematician by Noel Malcolm, Jacqueline Stedall

John Pell (1611-1685) and His Correspondence with Sir Charles Cavendish: The Mental World of an Early Modern Mathematician

Royal Microscopical Society Microscopy Handbooks

Noel Malcolm, Jacqueline Stedall

658 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history mathematics philosophy medium-paced
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Writing in 1939, the historian of mathematics Herbert Turnbull described John Pell as 'a mysterious figure' and commented: 'he may well prove to be an unsuspected genius, for his manuscripts appear to survive, unexamined, in the British Museum.' T...

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