Fermat, Leibniz, Euler, and the gang: The true history of the concepts of limit and shadow

Tiziana Bascelli, Emanuele Bottazzi, Frederik Herzberg +6

Fermat, Leibniz, Euler, and Cauchy all used one or another form of approximate equality, or the idea of discarding "negligible" terms, so as to obtain a correct analytic answer. Th…