Defining continuity of real functions of real variables

DOI10.1080/17498430.2015.1116053MaRDI QIDQ2956596zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors John F. Harper

Publication date 18 January 2017

Published in BSHM Bulletin: Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/17498430.2015.1116053

zbMATH Keywords

continuitycorrectness of the notion of continuitydefinitions of continuityfallaciespitfalls

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of mathematics in the 21st century (01A61) Free nonabelian groups (20E05) History of real functions (26-03) Continuity and related questions (modulus of continuity, semicontinuity, discontinuities, etc.) for real functions in one variable (26A15)

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