Fermat's maximum and minimum method

DOI10.5802/afst.1229zbMath1180.01019OpenAlexW2326998370MaRDI QIDQ735088

Enrico Giusti

Publication date: 14 October 2009

Published in: Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Toulouse. Mathématiques. Série VI (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/10132

zbMATH Keywords

Fermatmaximum and minimum method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of number theory (11-03) History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45)

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• The mysteries of adaequare: A vindication of Fermat
• Fermat's method of maxima and minima and of tangents. A reconstruction
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