Newton and the notion of limit

DOI10.1006/hmat.2000.2301zbMath0999.01007OpenAlexW2075868052WikidataQ57257819 ScholiaQ57257819MaRDI QIDQ5936221

Bruce Pourciau

Publication date: 26 November 2002

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/ed6f1aae7d6dfc71cb30e4b020e75f8698a87f3f

zbMATH Keywords

limit

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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• Radical principia
• The preliminary mathematical lemmas of Newton's Principia
• The prehistory of the Principia from 1664 to 1686
• Descartes and the Geometrization of Algebra
• Who Gave You the Epsilon? Cauchy and the Origins of Rigorous Calculus
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