The metaphysics of the calculus: A foundational debate in the Paris Academy of Sciences, 1700-1706

DOI10.1016/0315-0860(89)90019-0zbMath0683.01006MaRDI QIDQ1824606

Paolo Mancosu

Publication date: 1989

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0315-0860(89)90019-0

zbMATH Keywords

Pierre Varignon; infinitesimal calculus; infinitely smally quantities; Johann I. Bernoulli; l'Hôspital; M. Rolle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

00A30: Philosophy of mathematics

01A50: History of mathematics in the 18th century

26-03: History of real functions

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