Book ID: CBB000950297

Infinitesimal Differences: Controversies between Leibniz and His Contemporaries (2008)

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Goldenbaum, Ursula (Editor)
Jesseph, Douglas Michael (Editor)


Walter de Gruyter


Publication Date: 2008
Physical Details: vi + 327 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Contents:


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Review Fraser, Craig (2009) Review of "Infinitesimal Differences: Controversies between Leibniz and His Contemporaries". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 654). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Beeley, Philip (2008) Infinity, Infinitesimals, and the Reform of Cavalieri: John Wallis and His Critics. In: Infinitesimal Differences: Controversies between Leibniz and His Contemporaries (p. 31). unapi

Chapter Goldenbaum, Ursula (2008) Indivisibilia Vera -- How Leibniz Came to Love Mathematics. Appendix: Leibniz's Marginalia in Hobbes' Opera philosophica and De corpore. In: Infinitesimal Differences: Controversies between Leibniz and His Contemporaries (p. 53). unapi

Chapter Levey, Samuel (2008) Archimedes, Infinitesimals and the Law of Continuity: On Leibniz's Fictionalism. In: Infinitesimal Differences: Controversies between Leibniz and His Contemporaries (p. 107). unapi

Chapter Grosholz, Emily (2008) Productive Ambiguity in Leibniz's Representation of Infinitesimals. In: Infinitesimal Differences: Controversies between Leibniz and His Contemporaries (p. 153). unapi

Chapter Knobloch, Eberhard (2008) Generality and Infinitely Small Quantities in Leibniz's Mathematics -- The Case of his Arithmetical Quadrature of Conic Sections and Related Curves. In: Infinitesimal Differences: Controversies between Leibniz and His Contemporaries (p. 171). unapi

Chapter Nagel, Fritz (2008) Nieuwentijt, Leibniz, and Jacob Hermann on Infinitesimals. In: Infinitesimal Differences: Controversies between Leibniz and His Contemporaries (p. 199). unapi

Chapter Duchesneau, François (2008) Rule of Continuity and Infinitesimals in Leibniz's Physics. In: Infinitesimal Differences: Controversies between Leibniz and His Contemporaries (p. 235). unapi

Chapter Rutherford, Donald (2008) Leibniz on Infinitesimals and the Reality of Force. In: Infinitesimal Differences: Controversies between Leibniz and His Contemporaries (p. 255). unapi

Chapter Arthur, Richard (2008) Leery Bedfellows: Newton and Leibniz on the Status of Infinitesimals. In: Infinitesimal Differences: Controversies between Leibniz and His Contemporaries (p. 7). unapi

Chapter Garber, Daniel (2008) Dead Force, Infinitesimals, and the Mathematicization of Nature. In: Infinitesimal Differences: Controversies between Leibniz and His Contemporaries (p. 281). unapi

Chapter Probst, Siegmund (2008) Indivisibles and Infinitesimals in Early Mathematical Texts of Leibniz. In: Infinitesimal Differences: Controversies between Leibniz and His Contemporaries (p. 95). unapi

Chapter Bassler, O. Bradley (2008) An Enticing (Im)Possibility: Infinitesimals, Differentials, and the Leibnizian Calculus. In: Infinitesimal Differences: Controversies between Leibniz and His Contemporaries (p. 135). unapi

Chapter Breger, Herbert (2008) Leibniz's Calculation with Compendia. In: Infinitesimal Differences: Controversies between Leibniz and His Contemporaries (p. 185). unapi

Chapter Jesseph, Douglas (2008) Truth in Fiction: Origins and Consequences of Leibniz's Doctrine of Infinitesimal Magnitudes. In: Infinitesimal Differences: Controversies between Leibniz and His Contemporaries (p. 215). unapi

Chapter Goldenbaum, Ursula; Jesseph, Douglas (2008) Introduction. In: Infinitesimal Differences: Controversies between Leibniz and His Contemporaries (p. 1). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Katz, Mikhail G.
Bair, Jacques
Ely, Robert
Kuhlemann, Karl
Kaplan, Abram
Wardhaugh, Benjamin
Concepts
Mathematics
Calculus
Infinitesimals
Geometry
Philosophy of mathematics
Controversies and disputes
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
Early modern
19th century
16th century
Places
Europe
Great Britain
Oxford (England)
Basel (Switzerland)
London (England)
Cambridge (England)
Institutions
Royal Society of London
Oxford University
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