Controversies in the foundations of analysis: comments on Schubring's \textit{Conflicts}
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Publication:2013410
DOI10.1007/S10699-015-9473-4zbMATH Open1368.01021arXiv1601.00059OpenAlexW3103819722MaRDI QIDQ2013410FDOQ2013410
Authors: Piotr Błaszczyk, David Sherry, Vladimir Kanovei, Mikhail G. Katz 
Publication date: 17 August 2017
Published in: Foundations of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: Foundations of Science recently published a rebuttal to a portion of our essay it published two years ago. The author, G. Schubring, argues that our 2013 text treated unfairly his 2005 book, Conflicts between generalization, rigor, and intuition. He further argues that our attempt to show that Cauchy is part of a long infinitesimalist tradition confuses text with context and thereby misunderstands the significance of Cauchy's use of infinitesimals. Here we defend our original analysis of variousmisconceptions and misinterpretations concerning the history of infinitesimals and, in particular, the role of infinitesimals in Cauchy's mathematics. We show that Schubring misinterprets Proclus, Leibniz, and Klein on non-Archimedean issues, ignores the Jesuit context of Moigno's flawed critique of infinitesimals, and misrepresents, to the point of caricature, the pioneering Cauchy scholarship of D. Laugwitz. Keywords: Archimedean axiom, Cauchy, Felix Klein, hornangle, infinitesimal, Leibniz, ontology, procedure
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.00059
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