Isaac Todhunter

Isaac Todhunter (November 23, 1820 - March 1, 1884), was an English mathematician.

Works

• Treatise on the Differential Calculus and the Elements of the Integral Calculus (1852, 6th ed., 1873)
• Treatise on Analytical Statics (1853, 4th ed., 1874)
• Treatise on the Integral Calculus (1857, 4th ed., 1874)
• Treatise on Algebra (1858, 6th ed., 1871)
• Treatise on Plane Coordinate Geometry (1858, 3rd ed., 1861)
• Plane Trigonometry (1859, 4th ed., 1869)
• Spherical Trigonometry (1859)
• History of the Calculus of Variations (1861)
• Theory of Equations (1861, 2nd ed. 1875)
• Examples of Analytical Geometry of Three Dimensions (1858, 3rd ed., 1873)
• Mechanics (1867)
• History of the Mathematical Theory of Probability from the Time of Pascal to that of Lagrange (1865)
• Researches in the Calculus of Variations (1871)
• History of the Mathematical Theories of Attraction and Figure of the Earth from Newton to Laplace (1873)
• Elementary Treatise on Laplace's, Lame's and Bessel's Functions (1875)
• Natural Philosophy for Beginners (1877).

An unfinished work, The History of the Theory of Elasticity, was edited and published posthumously in 1886 by Karl Pearson. Todhunter also published keys to the problems in his textbooks on algebra and trigonometry; and a biographical work, William Whewell, account of his writings and correspondence (1876), in addition to many original papers in scientific journals.

Related Topics:
Algebra - Trigonometry - William Whewell

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See obituary notices in the Proc. Land. Math. Soc. (1884), and Proc. Roy. Soc. (1884).

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