The indivisibles of the continuum: seventeenth-century adventures in infinitesimal mathematics

DOI10.1093/OSO/9780198809647.003.0006zbMATH Open1464.01003OpenAlexW3113695376MaRDI QIDQ5149697FDOQ5149697

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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zbMATH Keywords

WalliscalculusinfinitesimalsindivisiblesCavalieriRobervalTorricelli

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) History of mathematical logic and foundations (03-03) History of real functions (26-03)

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