Barrow, Wallis, and the Remaking of Seventeenth Century Indivisibles

DOI10.1111/J.1600-0498.1997.TB00025.XMaRDI QIDQ5284777zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Antoni Malet

Publication date 12 March 1997

Published in Centaurus (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0498.1997.tb00025.x

zbMATH Keywords

infinitesimalindivisiblesJohn WallisIsaac Barrowprehistory of calculus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45)

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