The Changing Concept of Change: The Derivative from Fermat to Weierstrass

DOI10.2307/2689807zbMath0522.26004OpenAlexW4256665778MaRDI QIDQ3672199

Judith V. Grabiner

Publication date: 1983

Full work available at URL: https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1118&context=pitzer_fac_pub

zbMATH Keywords

historical surveydevelopment of the concept of derivative

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of real functions (26-03) General histories, source books (01A05)

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