Convergence and formal manipulation in the theory of series from 1730 to 1815

DOI10.1016/j.hm.2005.08.004zbMath1169.01010WikidataQ56687834 ScholiaQ56687834MaRDI QIDQ885086

Giovanni Ferraro

Publication date: 8 June 2007

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2005.08.004

zbMATH Keywords

convergence; differential equations; formal methods; transcendental functions; trigonometric series; series

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

01A50: History of mathematics in the 18th century

01A55: History of mathematics in the 19th century

40-03: History of sequences, series, summability

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