Lagrange in the Netherlands: Dutch attempts to obtain rigor in calculus, 1797-1840

DOI10.1006/HMAT.1999.2246MaRDI QIDQ1818239zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors D. J. Beckers

Publication date 1 February 2000

Published in Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1006/hmat.1999.2246

zbMATH Keywords

J. L. LagrangeDutch mathematics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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