Where are limits needed in calculus?

DOI10.4169/AMER.MATH.MONTHLY.118.05.404MaRDI QIDQ3002529zbMATH OpenOpenAlexDBLPWikidataFDO

Authors R. Michael Range

Publication date 20 May 2011

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4169/amer.math.monthly.118.05.404

zbMATH Keywords

derivativeinfinitesimal quantitieslimit

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of real functions (26-03)

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