Cauchy, Convergence and Continuity

DOI10.1093/BJPS/22.1.27zbMATH Open0242.01011OpenAlexW2076561391MaRDI QIDQ5652620FDOQ5652620

J. P. Cleave

Publication date: 1971

Published in: The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/22.1.27

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) Convergence and divergence of series and sequences (40A05) Continuity and related questions (modulus of continuity, semicontinuity, discontinuities, etc.) for real functions in one variable (26A15) Nonstandard models (03H99)

Cited In (6)

• Cauchy and the infinitely small
• Cauchy's infinitesimals, his sum theorem, and foundational paradigms
• The continuity program between Cantor and nonstandard analysis.
• Infinitesimals via Cauchy sequences: refining the classical equivalence
• Definite values of infinite sums: Aspects of the foundations of infinitesimal analysis around 1820
• Alpha-theory: An elementary axiomatics for nonstandard analysis

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