Leibniz on the elimination of infinitesimals

DOI10.1007/978-94-017-9664-4_9MaRDI QIDQ5261595zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Douglas Jesseph

Publication date 6 July 2015

Published in G.W. Leibniz, Interrelations between Mathematics and Philosophy (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9664-4_9

zbMATH Keywords

continuitydifferential calculusArchimedesinfinitesimalsrigorexhaustion prooffictional quantities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) History of mathematical logic and foundations (03-03) Miscellaneous topics in real functions (26E99)

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