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most citedProcedures of Leibnizian infinitesimal calculus: An account in three modern frameworks

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math.HO202017 cited

Procedures of Leibnizian infinitesimal calculus: An account in three modern frameworks

Jacques Bair, Piotr Blaszczyk, Robert Ely +2

Recent Leibniz scholarship has sought to gauge which foundational framework provides the most successful account of the procedures of the Leibnizian calculus (LC). While many schol…

math.HO2020

Phenomenology of diagrams in Book II of the Elements

Piotr Błaszczyk

In this paper, we provide an interpretation of Book II of the Elements from the perspective of figures which are represented and not represented on the diagrams. We show that Eucli…

math.HO20208 cited

Continuity between Cauchy and Bolzano: Issues of antecedents and priority

Jacques Bair, Piotr Blaszczyk, Elias Fuentes Guillen +3

In a paper published in 1970, Grattan-Guinness argued that Cauchy, in his 1821 book Cours d'Analyse, may have plagiarized Bolzano's book Rein analytischer Beweis (RB), first publis…

math.HO2020

Cauchy's work on integral geometry, centers of curvature, and other applications of infinitesimals

Jacques Bair, Piotr Blaszczyk, Peter Heinig +3

Like his colleagues de Prony, Petit, and Poisson at the Ecole Polytechnique, Cauchy used infinitesimals in the Leibniz-Euler tradition both in his research and teaching. Cauchy app…

math.HO2019

19th century real analysis, forward and backward

Jacques Bair, Piotr Blaszczyk, Peter Heinig +2

19th century real analysis received a major impetus from Cauchy's work. Cauchy mentions variable quantities, limits, and infinitesimals, but the meaning he attached to these terms…

math.HO2018

Leibniz's well-founded fictions and their interpretations

Jacques Bair, Piotr Blaszczyk, Robert Ely +2

Leibniz used the term fiction in conjunction with infinitesimals. What kind of fictions they were exactly is a subject of scholarly dispute. The position of Bos and Mancosu contras…