The notion of variable quantities in Bolzano's early works

DOI10.1016/J.HM.2019.07.002zbMATH Open1440.01006OpenAlexW2973251189MaRDI QIDQ1986997FDOQ1986997

Authors: Elías Fuentes Guillén, Carmen Martínez Adame 

Publication date: 9 April 2020

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2019.07.002

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zbMATH Keywords

real analysisinfinitesimalsvariable quantities \(\omega\)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55)

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