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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…
Cauchy's infinitesimals, his sum theorem, and foundational paradigms
Tiziana Bascelli, Piotr Blaszczyk, Alexandre Borovik +7
Cauchy's sum theorem is a prototype of what is today a basic result on the convergence of a series of functions in undergraduate analysis. We seek to interpret Cauchy's proof, and…
Gregory's sixth operation
Tiziana Bascelli, Piotr Blaszczyk, Vladimir Kanovei +6
In relation to a thesis put forward by Marx Wartofsky, we seek to show that a historiography of mathematics requires an analysis of the ontology of the part of mathematics under sc…
Interpreting the infinitesimal mathematics of Leibniz and Euler
Jacques Bair, Piotr Blaszczyk, Robert Ely +10
We apply Benacerraf's distinction between mathematical ontology and mathematical practice (or the structures mathematicians use in practice) to examine contrasting interpretations…
Leibniz vs Ishiguro: Closing a quarter-century of syncategoremania
Tiziana Bascelli, Piotr Blaszczyk, Vladimir Kanovei +4
Did Leibniz exploit infinitesimals and infinities `a la rigueur, or only as shorthand for quantified propositions that refer to ordinary Archimedean magnitudes? Chapter 5 in (Ishig…
Is mathematical history written by the victors?
Jacques Bair, Piotr Blaszczyk, Robert Ely +9
We examine prevailing philosophical and historical views about the origin of infinitesimal mathematics in light of modern infinitesimal theories, and show the works of Fermat, Leib…