Tension between Intuitive Infinitesimals and Formal Mathematical Analysis

Publication date 26 October 2011

Historiography (01A85) Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Nonstandard analysis (26E35) Cognitive processes, learning theories (aspects of mathematics education) (97C30)

Abstract: We discuss the repercussions of the development of infinitesimal calculus into modern analysis, beginning with viewpoints expressed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and relating them to the natural cognitive development of mathematical thinking and imaginative visual interpretations of axiomatic proof.

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