scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1512896

MaRDI QIDQ4508596zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Detlef D. Spalt

Publication date 16 November 2000

zbMATH Keywords

19th century analysisdefinition of real functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of real functions (26-03)

Review text

The author argues that -- unlike the notion of real number -- there has not been produced one logically stringent and generally acknowledged notion of a ``real function in the 19th century. In order to show this he quotes extensively from Euler, Dirichlet, Hankel, Du Bois-Reymond, Weierstrass, Fourier, Riemann, Baire, Bolzano, Frege and other mathematicians. The author sticks to the purely conceptual side and does not go into the historical needs for considering ``real functions and real numbers as values, which arose e.g. in differential equations or in integration theory. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0940.00069].

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