Real and the Complex: A History of Analysis in the 19th Century

Jeremy Gray is the author or co-author of ten books, most recently Hidden Harmony – Geometric Fantasies: the rise of complex function theory (Springer 2013) with Umberto Bottazzini (Milan), upon which this book is based. He is also the author of Henri Poincaré: a scientific biography (Princeton U.P. 2012) and Plato’s Ghost: The Modernist Transformation of Mathematics (Princeton U.P. 2008). In 2009 he was awarded the Albert Leon Whiteman Memorial Prize of the American Mathematical Society for his work in the history of mathematics, and he was elected an inaugural Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012.

• Lagrange and foundations for the calculus.- Joseph Fourier.- Legendre.- Cauchy and continuity.- Cauchy: differentiation and integration.- Cauchy and complex functions to 1830.- Abel.- Jacobi.- Gauss.- Cauchy and complex function theory, 1830-1857.- Complex functions and elliptic integrals.- Revision.- Gauss, Green, and potential theory.- Dirichlet, potential theory, and Fourier series.- Riemann.- Riemann and complex function theory.- Riemann's later complex function theory.- Responses to Riemann's work.- Weierstrass.- Weierstrass's foundational results.- Revision { and assessment.- Uniform Convergence.- Integration and trigonometric series.- The fundamental theorem of the calculus.- The construction of the real numbers.- Implicit functions.- Towards Lebesgue's theory of integration.- Cantor, set theory, and foundations.- Topology.- Assessment.

"I view it as an extremely valuable addition to my library and a book that I am sure I will consult frequently in the future: this is a text that should serve well as a desk reference for a faculty member teaching either analysis (real or complex) or the history of mathematics. Certainly, no good university library should be without it." (Mark Hunacek, MAA Reviews, maa.org, January, 2017) "The Real and the Complex ... develops the subject of analysis by reviewing the works of some of the prominent mathematicians of the 19th century. ... Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers/faculty, professionals/practitioners." (M. D. Sanford, Choice, Vol. 53 (9), May, 2016) "This is a history book on the development of mathematics in the 19th century. Each chapter is built up around one or a few mathematicians. ... this book is not only an interesting read for the students who (have to) study it, but equally valuable for professional mathematicians." (Adhemar Bultheel, European Mathematical Society, euro-math-soc.eu, February, 2016)