Changing canons of mathematical and physical intelligibility in the later 17th century

DOI10.1016/0315-0860(84)90026-0zbMath0556.01004OpenAlexW2062614021MaRDI QIDQ761429

Michael S. Mahoney

Publication date: 1984

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0315-0860(84)90026-0

zbMATH Keywords

mechanicsLeibnizDescartesclosed algebraic expressionsmathematical intelligibility

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) History of real functions (26-03)

Cites Work

• On the representation of curves in Descartes' geometrie
• Differentials, higher-order differentials and the derivative in the Leibnizian calculus
• Shifting the foundations: Descartes's transformation of ancient geometry

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