The Changing Concept of Change: The Derivative from Fermat to Weierstrass

DOI10.2307/2689807MaRDI QIDQ3672199zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Judith V. Grabiner

Publication date 1983

Full work available at URL https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1118&context=pitzer_fac_pub

zbMATH Keywords

historical surveydevelopment of the concept of derivative

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of real functions (26-03) General histories, source books (01A05)

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• Maxima and minima without derivatives?
• Constructing a mathematical definition: the case of the tangent
• The fundamental theorem of calculus within a geometric context based on Barrow's work
• To Fix Those Plots, Use Limits!
• On definitions in mathematics

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