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Cauchy, infinitesimals and ghosts of departed quantifiers
Jacques Bair, Piotr Blaszczyk, Robert Ely +10
Procedures relying on infinitesimals in Leibniz, Euler and Cauchy have been interpreted in both a Weierstrassian and Robinson's frameworks. The latter provides closer proxies for t…
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Analyzing Benardete's comment on decimal notation
Jacques Bair, Piotr Blaszczyk, Karin U. Katz +3
Philosopher Benardete challenged both the conventional wisdom and the received mathematical treatment of zero, dot, nine recurring. An initially puzzling passage in Benardete on th…