God, king, and geometry: revisiting the introduction to Cauchy's \textit{Cours d'analyse}

DOI10.1016/j.hm.2010.12.001zbMath1221.01065OpenAlexW2040486991WikidataQ56038361 ScholiaQ56038361MaRDI QIDQ549913

Michael J. Barany

Publication date: 19 July 2011

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2010.12.001

zbMATH Keywords

history of analysisAugustin-Louis CauchyCours d'analyse

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55)

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