Table of Contents:1. The Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries.- 1.1. Introduction.- 1.2. Napier and Logarithms.- 1.3. Briggs and His Logarithms.- 1.4. Bürgi and His Antilogarithms.- 1.5. Interpolation.- 1.6. Vieta and Briggs.- 1.7. Kepler.- 2. The Age of Newton.- 2.1. Introduction.- 2.2. Logarithms and Finite Differences.- 2.3. Trigonometric Tables.- 2.4. The Newton-Raphson and Other Iterative Methods.- 2.5. Finite Differences and Interpolation.- 2.6. Maclaurin on the Euler-Maclaurin Formula.- 2.7. Stirling.- 2.8. Leibniz.- 3. Euler and Lagrange.- 3.1. Introduction.- 3.2. Summation of Series.- 3.3. Euler on the Euler-Maclaurin Formula.- 3.4. Applications of the Summation Formula.- 3.5. Euler on Interpolation.- 3.6. Lunar Theory.- 3.7. Lagrange on Difference Equations.- 3.8. Lagrange on Functional Equations.- 3.9. Lagrange on Fourier Series.- 3.10. Lagrange on Partial Difference Equations.- 3.11. Lagrange on Finite Differences and Interpolation.- 3.12. Lagrange on Hidden Periodicit
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