Newton and the notion of limit (Q5936221): Difference between revisions

The author investigates Newton's understanding of the limit concept through a study of certain proofs appearing in the \textit{Principia Mathematica}, and finds that Newton, not Cauchy, was the first to present an epsilon argument.

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Nicolae A. Soare

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zbMATH Keywords

limit

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MaRDI publication profile

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Descartes and the Geometrization of Algebra

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Who Gave You the Epsilon? Cauchy and the Origins of Rigorous Calculus

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Q5822020

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Q4510158

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Radical principia

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The preliminary mathematical lemmas of Newton's Principia

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The prehistory of the <i>Principia</i> from 1664 to 1686

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0999.01007

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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10.1006/HMAT.2000.2301

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