James Stirling's Methodus Differentialis : An Annotated Translation of Stirling's Text (Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical

James Stirling's "Methodus Differentialis" is one of the early classics of numerical analysis. It contains not only the results and ideas for which Stirling is chiefly remembered, for example, Stirling numbers and Stirling's asymptotic formula for factorials, but also a wealth of material on transformations of series and limiting processes.