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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…
Klein vs Mehrtens: restoring the reputation of a great modern
Jacques Bair, Piotr Błaszczyk, Peter Heinig +3
Historian Herbert Mehrtens sought to portray the history of turn-of-the-century mathematics as a struggle of modern vs countermodern, led respectively by David Hilbert and Felix Kl…
Fermat's dilemma: Why did he keep mum on infinitesimals? and the European theological context
Jacques Bair, Mikhail G. Katz, David Sherry
The first half of the 17th century was a time of intellectual ferment when wars of natural philosophy were echoes of religious wars, as we illustrate by a case study of an apparent…