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Servois' 1813 Perpetual Calendar, with an English Translation - Bibliography

Author(s): 
Salvatore J. Petrilli, Jr. (Adelphi University)

Aebischer, A. and Languereau, H. (2010). Servois ou la géométrie á l'école de l'artillerie. Besançon Cedex: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté.

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Bradley, R. E. (2002). “The Origins of Linear Operator Theory in the Work of François-Joseph Servois,” Proceedings of Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics 14, 1 - 21.

Bradley, R. E. and Petrilli, S. J. (2010). “Servois' 1814 Essay on the Principles of the Differential Calculus, with an English Translation,” Convergence 7. DOI: 10.4169/loci003487
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Petrilli S. J. (2010).  “François-Joseph Servois: Priest, Artillery Officer, and Professor of Mathematics,” Convergence 7. DOI: 10.4169/loci003498
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Salvatore J. Petrilli, Jr. (Adelphi University), "Servois' 1813 Perpetual Calendar, with an English Translation - Bibliography," Convergence (June 2012), DOI:10.4169/loci003884