Leibniz on the elimination of infinitesimals

DOI10.1007/978-94-017-9664-4_9zbMATH Open1326.01026OpenAlexW323003897MaRDI QIDQ5261595FDOQ5261595

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)

Cites Work

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• Toward a history of mathematics focused on procedures
• Procedures of Leibnizian infinitesimal calculus: an account in three modern frameworks
• Leibniz on the Continuity of Space
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• Periodic words connected with the tribonacci-Lucas numbers
• Three case studies in current Leibniz scholarship
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• Fiction, possibility and impossibility: three kinds of mathematical fictions in Leibniz's work
• Differentials and differential coefficients in the Eulerian foundations of the calculus.
• Leibniz's syncategorematic infinitesimals. II: Their existence, their use and their role in the justification of the differential calculus
• The legacy of the geometric tradition in Leibniz's infinitesimal calculus

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