On the Historical Development of Infinitesimal Mathematics

DOI10.2307/2975060zbMath0891.26001OpenAlexW4248411049MaRDI QIDQ4373339

Detlef Laugwitz

Publication date: 21 January 1998

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2975060

zbMATH Keywords

historical developmentinfinitesimal calculuslimit of a convergent series of continuous functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) History of real functions (26-03) Nonstandard analysis (26E35)

Related Items (4)

Who gave you the Cauchy-Weierstrass tale? The dual history of rigorous calculus ⋮ Ten misconceptions from the history of analysis and their debunking ⋮ 19th-century real analysis, forward and backward ⋮ Applications of proportional calculus and a non-Newtonian logistic growth model

This page was built for publication: On the Historical Development of Infinitesimal Mathematics