Niccolò Guicciardini

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Niccolò Guicciardini Corsi Salviati (born 28 May 1957 in Firenze) is an Italian historian of mathematics. He is a professor at the University of Bergamo, and is known for his studies on the works of Isaac Newton.[1][2]

Guicciardini obtained his Ph.D. in 1987 under the supervision of Ivor Grattan-Guinness.[3]

In 2011 he was awarded the Fernando Gil International Prize for the Philosophy of Science.[4]

Selected publications

  • Isaac Newton on mathematical certainty and method,[5] 2009
  • "Did Newton use his calculus in the Principia?", Centaurus Vol. 40, pp. 303–344, 1998
  • "Newton's method and Leibniz's calculus", 2003

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