Infinitesimal differences [[electronic resource] ] : controversies between leibniz and his contemporaries / / edited by Ursula Goldenbaum and Douglas Jesseph |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter De Gruyter, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
Disciplina | 193 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
GoldenbaumUrsula
JessephDouglas Michael |
Soggetto topico |
Physics - Philosophy
Mathematics - Philosophy |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-39828-1
9786613398284 3-11-021186-6 |
Classificazione | CF 5517 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Leery Bedfellows: Newton and Leibniz on the Status of Infinitesimals -- Infinity, Infinitesimals, and the Reform of Cavalieri: John Wallis and his Critics -- Indivisibilia Vera - How Leibniz Came to Love Mathematics -- Indivisibles and Infinitesimals in Early Mathematical Texts of Leibniz -- Archimedes, Infinitesimals and the Law of Continuity: On Leibniz's Fictionalism -- An Enticing (Im)Possibility: Infinitesimals, Differentials, and the Leibnizian Calculus -- Productive Ambiguity in Leibniz's Representation of Infinitesimals -- Generality and Infinitely Small Quantities in Leibniz's Mathematics - The Case of his Arithmetical Quadrature of Conic Sections and Related Curves -- Leibniz's Calculation with Compendia -- Nieuwentijt, Leibniz, and Jacob Hermann on Infinitesimals -- Truth in Fiction: Origins and Consequences of Leibniz's Doctrine of Infinitesimal Magnitudes -- Rule of Continuity and Infinitesimals in Leibniz's Physics -- Leibniz on Infinitesimals and the Reality of Force -- Dead Force, Infinitesimals, and the Mathematicization of Nature -- Backmatter |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454556703321 |
Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter De Gruyter, c2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Infinitesimal differences [[electronic resource] ] : controversies between leibniz and his contemporaries / / edited by Ursula Goldenbaum and Douglas Jesseph |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter De Gruyter, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
Disciplina | 193 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
GoldenbaumUrsula
JessephDouglas Michael |
Soggetto topico |
Physics - Philosophy
Mathematics - Philosophy |
ISBN |
1-283-39828-1
9786613398284 3-11-021186-6 |
Classificazione | CF 5517 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Leery Bedfellows: Newton and Leibniz on the Status of Infinitesimals -- Infinity, Infinitesimals, and the Reform of Cavalieri: John Wallis and his Critics -- Indivisibilia Vera - How Leibniz Came to Love Mathematics -- Indivisibles and Infinitesimals in Early Mathematical Texts of Leibniz -- Archimedes, Infinitesimals and the Law of Continuity: On Leibniz's Fictionalism -- An Enticing (Im)Possibility: Infinitesimals, Differentials, and the Leibnizian Calculus -- Productive Ambiguity in Leibniz's Representation of Infinitesimals -- Generality and Infinitely Small Quantities in Leibniz's Mathematics - The Case of his Arithmetical Quadrature of Conic Sections and Related Curves -- Leibniz's Calculation with Compendia -- Nieuwentijt, Leibniz, and Jacob Hermann on Infinitesimals -- Truth in Fiction: Origins and Consequences of Leibniz's Doctrine of Infinitesimal Magnitudes -- Rule of Continuity and Infinitesimals in Leibniz's Physics -- Leibniz on Infinitesimals and the Reality of Force -- Dead Force, Infinitesimals, and the Mathematicization of Nature -- Backmatter |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782792403321 |
Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter De Gruyter, c2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Infinitesimal differences : controversies between leibniz and his contemporaries / / edited by Ursula Goldenbaum and Douglas Jesseph |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter De Gruyter, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
Disciplina | 193 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
GoldenbaumUrsula
JessephDouglas Michael |
Soggetto topico |
Physics - Philosophy
Mathematics - Philosophy |
ISBN |
1-283-39828-1
9786613398284 3-11-021186-6 |
Classificazione | CF 5517 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Leery Bedfellows: Newton and Leibniz on the Status of Infinitesimals -- Infinity, Infinitesimals, and the Reform of Cavalieri: John Wallis and his Critics -- Indivisibilia Vera - How Leibniz Came to Love Mathematics -- Indivisibles and Infinitesimals in Early Mathematical Texts of Leibniz -- Archimedes, Infinitesimals and the Law of Continuity: On Leibniz's Fictionalism -- An Enticing (Im)Possibility: Infinitesimals, Differentials, and the Leibnizian Calculus -- Productive Ambiguity in Leibniz's Representation of Infinitesimals -- Generality and Infinitely Small Quantities in Leibniz's Mathematics - The Case of his Arithmetical Quadrature of Conic Sections and Related Curves -- Leibniz's Calculation with Compendia -- Nieuwentijt, Leibniz, and Jacob Hermann on Infinitesimals -- Truth in Fiction: Origins and Consequences of Leibniz's Doctrine of Infinitesimal Magnitudes -- Rule of Continuity and Infinitesimals in Leibniz's Physics -- Leibniz on Infinitesimals and the Reality of Force -- Dead Force, Infinitesimals, and the Mathematicization of Nature -- Backmatter |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807368103321 |
Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter De Gruyter, c2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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