The Buccaneers of America These twenty-three self-contained articles represent

These twenty-three self-contained articles represent the author's work in a variety of fields but are unified by a consistently rational approach

notion of limit

symbolic logic

Geared toward upper-level undergrads

provides laymen and mathematicians alike with a detailed picture of the historical development of one of the most momentous achievements of the human intellect ― the calculus

The Buccaneers of America These twenty-three self-contained articles representA cross between genuine privateers, commissioned to defend a country's colonies and trade, and outright pirates, buccaneers were largely English, French, and Dutch adventurers who plied the waters among the Caribbean Islands and along the coasts of Central America, Venezuela, and Colombia more than 300 years ago. The activities of these bands of plundering sea rovers reached a peak in the second half of the seventeenth century, when this remarkable