Lagrange in the Netherlands: Dutch attempts to obtain rigor in calculus, 1797-1840 (Q1818239): Difference between revisions

In this pioneering paper the author opens up the history of the calculus and related subjects in the Netherlands in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Lagrange's algebraising approach using Taylor's series as basis was influential, together (and partly mixed) with the Leibniz/Euler tradition using differentials and differential coefficients. Other topics such as difference analysis and complex numbers also became involved. The most influential author was Jacob de Gelder (1765-1848), especially with a textbook published in 1823, just when the new tradition based upon limits was being launched by Cauchy in Paris and not being imported into the Netherlands during the period covered here.