Infinitely small quantities in Cauchy's textbooks

DOI10.1016/0315-0860(87)90045-0zbMATH Open0638.01012OpenAlexW1994615143MaRDI QIDQ1099149FDOQ1099149

Authors: Detlef Laugwitz 

Publication date: 1987

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0315-0860(87)90045-0

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zbMATH Keywords

continuityinfinitesimalsfoundations of the calculus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of real functions (26-03)

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