Infinitesimals in the Calculus from Ancient to Modern Times

Lech Gruszecki, Adam Stachura, Magdalena Zoła
ISBN: 978-83-7702-825-4
Stron: 146
Format: B5 (oprawa twarda)
Rok wydania: 2013


CONTENTS

Introduction

1 Introduction to innitesimals
2 Antiquity
3 Middle Ages
4 Modern times from Kepler to Barrow
5 Isaac Newton
6 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and his school
7 Criticism of innitesimals. Concept of a limit as the foundation of mathematical analysis
8 Innitesimals in non-standard analysis

Supplement. Biographical Notes
Bibliography
Name Index