Who Gave You the Cauchy-Weierstrass Tale? The Dual History of Rigorous Calculus

Foundations of Science

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 245-276

  Borovik, Alexandre ^a   Katz, Mikhail G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Archimedean axiom; Bernoulli; Cauchy; Continuity; Continuum; du Bois Reymond; Epsilontics; Felix Klein; Hyperreals; Infinitesimal; Stolz; Sum theorem; Transfer principle; Ultraproduct; Weierstrass

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864312790     PISSN: 12331821     EISSN: 15728471     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10699-011-9235-x     Document Type: Article

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