Infinitely small quantities in Cauchy's textbooks

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DOI10.1016/0315-0860(87)90045-0zbMath0638.01012OpenAlexW1994615143MaRDI QIDQ1099149

Detlef Laugwitz

Publication date: 1987

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0315-0860(87)90045-0




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