Leibniz’s Infinitesimals: Their Fictiona
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Katz, Mikhail G.; Sherry, David
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Article
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2012
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Springer
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English
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Many historians of the calculus deny significant continuity between infinitesimal calculus of the seventeenth century and twentieth century developments such as Robinson's theory. Robinson's hyperreals, while providing a consistent theory of infinitesimals, require the resources of modern logic; thu