La introducció del càlcul diferencial a l'Espanya del segle XVIII. Tomàs Cerdà i la teoria dels fluxions

Our research concerns eighteenth century Spain and is focused on the
development and diffusion of Differential and Integral Calculus. Our thesis focus on
the reception of this new calculus into Spain, through Tomàs Cerdà (1715-1791).
Cerdà was a Catalan Jesuit devoted to the teaching of mathematics in Barcelona and
Madrid, in the mid-eighteenth century, and who published several mathematical textsand prepared many others for future publication. One of these manuscripts is a treatise
on Differential Calculus, the Tratado de Fluxiones, which is an adaptation of another
book, The Doctrine and Application of Fluxions (1750) by an English mathematician,
Thomas Simpson (1710-1761). Thus, the aim of this paper centers on the
analysis of the role of Cerdà in the introduction of Differential and Integral Calculus in
eighteenth Century Spain, by means his Tratado de Fluxiones.