Leibniz's syncategorematic infinitesimals. II: Their existence, their use and their role in the justification of the differential calculus

DOI10.1007/S00407-020-00249-WMaRDI QIDQ2201990zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David Rabouin, Richard T. W. Arthur

Publication date 17 September 2020

Published in Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-020-00249-w

zbMATH Keywords

infinitesimals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45)

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