A brief history of analysis with emphasis on philosophy, concepts, and numbers, including Weierstraß' real numbers

Preface / The Invention of the Mathematical Formula / Numbers, Line Segments, Points—But No Curved Lines / Lines and Variables / Indivisible: An Old Notion (Or, What Is the Continuum Made of?) / Do Infinite Numbers Exist?—An Unresolved Dispute Between Leibniz and Johann Bernoulli / Johann Bernoulli’...

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1. Verfasser: Spalt, Detlef D. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Cham, Switzerland Birkhäuser 2022
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Zusammenfassung:Preface / The Invention of the Mathematical Formula / Numbers, Line Segments, Points—But No Curved Lines / Lines and Variables / Indivisible: An Old Notion (Or, What Is the Continuum Made of?) / Do Infinite Numbers Exist?—An Unresolved Dispute Between Leibniz and Johann Bernoulli / Johann Bernoulli’s Rules for Differentials—What Does “Equal” Mean? / Euler and the Absolute Reign of Formal Calculation / Emphases in Algebraic Analysis After Euler / Bolzano: The Republican Revolutionary of Analysis / Cauchy: The Bourgeois Revolutionary as Activist of the Restoration / The Interregnum: Analysis on Swampy Ground / Weierstraß: The Last Effort Towards a Substancial Analysis / Analysis’ Detachment from Reality—and the Introduction of the Actual Infinite into the Foundations of Mathematics / Analysis with or Without Paradoxes?
Beschreibung:xxiii, 254 Seiten
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ISBN:9783031006494
978-3-031-00649-4