Exceptions and counterexamples: understanding Abel's comment on Cauchy's theorem

DOI10.1016/j.hm.2004.11.010zbMath1080.01005OpenAlexW2023332431WikidataQ56084225 ScholiaQ56084225MaRDI QIDQ2576314

Henrik Kragh Sørensen

Publication date: 27 December 2005

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2004.11.010

zbMATH Keywords

counterexampleAbelexceptionCauchy's theoremconcept-centeredcritical revisiondegenformula-centered

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of sequences, series, summability (40-03)

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