Nonstandard Analysis and the History of Classical Analysis

DOI10.2307/2589253MaRDI QIDQ4222458zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Fyodor A. Medvedev

Publication date 23 February 1999

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2589253

zbMATH Keywords

infinitesimals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of mathematical logic and foundations (03-03) History of real functions (26-03)

Review text

In 1934 N. Luzin observed that Cauchy had founded analysis on the concept of a variable, and had succeeded in his rigorous theory of a calculus with infinitesimals. On the other hand, Weierstrass removed from analysis all variable magnitudes, and reduced everything to stationary states, i.e. to constant magnitudes. The habit of dovetailing Cauchy and Weierstrass was, as to Luzin, an historical error. Corrections of this error, and reinterpretations of earlier infinitesimal analysis, were achieved in historical work after the revival of infinitesimals since the 1950s.

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