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Stevin numbers and reality (English)
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11 July 2013
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The authors present their views on the history and philosophy of real numbers, the continuum, and infinitesimals. Other views differing from theirs are characterized with terms such as ``incoherence'' and ``comic \textsl{non-sequitur}''. A related paper co-written by one of the authors had been rejected for publication, and the present article takes to task a referee involved, concluding that ``[t]he notion of a Cauchy as a pre-Weierstrassian, apparently espoused by the referee, is just as preposterous as the notion of Cauchy as a pre-Robinsonian. Such a notion is a reflection of a commitment to a triumvirate ideology, elevated to the status of a conditioned reflex.''
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infinitesimals
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real numbers
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continuum
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