34 citations · 46 across the 2 of their papers we have counts for
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math.HO2013★ 12 cited
Infinitesimals, Imaginaries, Ideals, and Fictions
David Sherry, Mikhail G. Katz
Leibniz entertained various conceptions of infinitesimals, considering them sometimes as ideal things and other times as fictions. But in both cases, he compares infinitesimals fav…
math.HO2012★ 34 cited
Leibniz's Laws of Continuity and Homogeneity
Mikhail G. Katz, David Sherry
We explore Leibniz's understanding of the differential calculus, and argue that his methods were more coherent than is generally recognized. The foundations of the historical infin…