Explaining the sudden rise of methods of indivisibles

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-00131-9_1zbMATH Open1329.01024OpenAlexW933080216MaRDI QIDQ2950495FDOQ2950495

Authors: Vincent Jullien 

Publication date: 9 October 2015

Published in: Seventeenth-Century Indivisibles Revisited (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00131-9_1

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zbMATH Keywords

conceptsindivisiblesdifferentiation and integrationapplications on physicspersonalities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) History of mathematics and mathematicians (01A99) History of real functions (26-03) Iteration of real functions in one variable (26A18) Differentiation (real functions of one variable): general theory, generalized derivatives, mean value theorems (26A24) Nonstandard analysis (26E35)

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• Comments on indivisibles and infinitesimals: a response to David Sherry, by Amir Alexander: in view of the original book
• The 1804 examination for the chair of Elementary Mathematics at the University of Prague

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