Fermat's ``adæquare -- no end in sight?

DOI10.1007/s00591-010-0083-5zbMath1216.01002OpenAlexW1992298428MaRDI QIDQ538499

Klaus Barner

Publication date: 25 May 2011

Published in: Mathematische Semesterberichte (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00591-010-0083-5

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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• Fermat's maximum and minimum method
• The mysteries of adaequare: A vindication of Fermat
• Fermat's method of maxima and minima and of tangents. A reconstruction
• Descartes' Diskussion der Fermatschen Extremwertmethode - ein Stück Ideengeschichte der Mathematik. (Descartes' discussion of Fermat's method of the extremal value - a piece of the history of ideas of mathematics)
• Pierre Fermat's Method of Determining Tangents of Curves and Its Application to the Conchoid and the Quadratrix
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