The metaphysics of the calculus: A foundational debate in the Paris Academy of Sciences, 1700-1706

DOI10.1016/0315-0860(89)90019-0zbMath0683.01006OpenAlexW1990379240MaRDI QIDQ1824606

Paolo Mancosu

Publication date: 1989

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0315-0860(89)90019-0

zbMATH Keywords

Pierre Varignoninfinitesimal calculusinfinitely smally quantitiesJohann I. Bernoullil'HôspitalM. Rolle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) History of real functions (26-03)

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