The indivisibles of the continuum: seventeenth-century adventures in infinitesimal mathematics
DOI10.1093/OSO/9780198809647.003.0006zbMATH Open1464.01003OpenAlexW3113695376MaRDI QIDQ5149697FDOQ5149697
Authors: Douglas Jesseph 
Publication date: 12 February 2021
Published in: The History of Continua (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198809647.003.0006
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