Reading Keynes' Treatise on Probability

Fermat’s Treatise on Quadrature : a New Reading

The Treatise on Quadrature of Fermat (c. 1659), besides containing the first known proof of the computation of the area under a higher parabola, ∫ x dx, or under a higher hyperbola, ∫ x dx— with the appropriate limits of integration in each case—, has a second part which was not understood by Fermat’s contemporaries. This second part of the Treatise is obscure and difficult to read and even the...

Keynes on William Harvey*

So far it would seem we have had many lives, but not the Life of William Harvey. An ideal Life should be based on all the documentary, literary and other evidence that can possibly be sought out at the time and should be shown to be thus based. There should be no criticism nor any attempts at whitewashing or worshipping the hero in the light of contemporary standards, but there should be a deep...

On Keynes and Monetarism

A Treatise on Plague

son, m it.c.s.i. London : Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Ld., 1901. Price 7s. Gd. It is somewhat remarkable that, though five years have now passed since the present pandemic of plague first made its appearance at Bombay, no book on the subject lias hitherto appeared based upon Indian experience. Reports written by medical officers, civilians, and even military officers we have had in abundance, but ...

Reflections on Maxwell’s Treatise

Over a period of about twenty years, Maxwell’s determination and unification of the equations of electricity and magnetism evolved from his first paper on the subject in 1855–56, “On Faraday’s Lines of Force,” to the publication of his Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism in 1873. Notwithstanding the many historical accounts and textbooks devoted to Maxwell’s work, I have not been able to find...