Leibniz's syncategorematic infinitesimals

DOI10.1007/s00407-013-0119-zzbMath1273.01021MaRDI QIDQ363509

Richard T. W. Arthur

Publication date: 3 September 2013

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-013-0119-z

zbMATH Keywords

calculus; higher-order infinitesimals; Newton's \textit{Principia}; smooth infinitesimal analysis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

01A45: History of mathematics in the 17th century

26-03: History of real functions

28-03: History of measure and integration

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