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

DOI10.1016/S0315-0860(02)00017-4MaRDI QIDQ1399702zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Giovanni Ferraro, Marco Panza

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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