Throwing Some Light on the Vast Darkness that is Analysis: Niels Henrik Abel's Critical Revision and the Concept of Absolute Convergence

DOI10.1111/j.1600-0498.2009.00163.xzbMath1195.01017MaRDI QIDQ3563630

Henrik Kragh Sørensen

Publication date: 31 May 2010

Published in: Centaurus (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0498.2009.00163.x

zbMATH Keywords

absolute convergence; binomial theorem; Abel, Cauchy and rigor in Analysis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

01A55: History of mathematics in the 19th century

26-03: History of real functions

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