infinitesimal analysis

infinitesimal analysis

1816: , Dissertation on the Progress of Mathematical and Physical Science since the Revival of Letters in Europe

b) a systematic employment of infinitesimals that reduces calculus to algebra; nonstandard analysis.

,"Of the new or infinitesimal analysis, we are to consider as the first inventor, , a German philosopher, as the second; ..."


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