Cauchy, Abel, Seidel, Stokes and the uniform convergence. On the historical difficulty of the argumentation about limits

zbMATH Open1277.26001MaRDI QIDQ2865623FDOQ2865623

Authors: Gilbert Arsac 

Publication date: 2 December 2013

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of real functions (26-03) Foundations: limits and generalizations, elementary topology of the line (26A03)

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