Developing into series and returning from series: A note on the foundations of eighteenth-century analysis

DOI10.1016/S0315-0860(02)00017-4zbMath1031.01007OpenAlexW2084866206WikidataQ56750896 ScholiaQ56750896MaRDI QIDQ1399702

Marco Panza, Giovanni Ferraro

Publication date: 30 July 2003

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0315-0860(02)00017-4

zbMATH Keywords

convergence and summationInfinite power series

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50)

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